The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.
Interpretation
Wine and poetry both offer subtlety and depth, enhancing our experiences through sensory engagement.
In this quote, Louis Pasteur highlights the exquisite nature of wine, comparing its complex and nuanced flavors to the delicate craft of poetry. Just as poetry evokes emotions and imagery through careful word choice and structure, the intricate flavors of wine can evoke feelings and memories, creating a rich sensory experience that transcends the ordinary.
In practice
During a wine tasting event, one might introduce this quote to highlight the artistic aspect of wine appreciation.
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. SΓ©dillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
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Chance favors those who are prepared.
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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