Louis Pasteur: Perbedaan antara revisi

Maurice Vallery-Radot, cucu lelaki dari menantu laki-laki dari Pasteur dan Katolik yang vokal, juga berpendapat bahwa Pasteur pada dasarnya tetap Katolik. <ref>{{Cite book| last = Vallery-Radot| first = Maurice | title = Pasteur| publisher = Perrin| year = 1994| location = Paris| pages = 377–407}}</ref> Menurut kedua Pasteur Vallery-Radot dan Maurice Vallery-Radot, kutipan terkenal berikut yang dikaitkan dengan Pasteur adalah apocryphal: <ref>Pasteur Vallery-Radot, Letter to Paul Dupuy, 1939, quoted by Hilaire Cuny, ''Pasteur et le mystère de la vie'', Paris, Seghers, 1963, p. 53–54.</ref> "Semakin saya tahu, semakin mendekati iman saya bahwa petani Breton. Bisakah saya tahu semua saya akan memiliki iman istri petani Breton ". <ref> name="catholic intro"</ref> Menurut Maurice Vallery-Radot, <ref>''Pasteur'', 1994, p. 378.</ref> kutipan palsu muncul untuk pertama kalinya tak lama setelah kematian Pasteur. <ref>In Pasteur's ''Semaine religieuse&nbsp;... du diocèse de Versailles'', October 6, 1895, p. 153.</ref> Namun, meskipun keyakinannya pada Tuhan, telah dikatakan bahwa pandangannya adalah pandangan bebas daripada seorang Katolik, yang lebih spiritual daripada seorang yang religius. <ref>{{cite book|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers|year=1945|publisher=Haldeman-Julius Publications|url=http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/dictionary.html|author=Joseph McCabe|accessdate=11 August 2012|quote=The anonymous Catholic author quotes as his authority the standard biography by Vallery-Radot, yet this describes Pasteur as a freethinker; and this is confirmed in the preface to the English translation by Sir W. Osler, who knew Pasteur personally. Vallery-Radot was himself a Catholic yet admits that Pasteur believed only in "an Infinite" and "hoped" for a future life. Pasteur publicly stated this himself in his Academy speech in 1822 (in V.R.). He said: "The idea of God is a form of the idea of the Infinite whether it is called Brahma, Allah, Jehova, or Jesus." The biographer says that in his last days he turned to the Church but the only "evidence" he gives is that he liked to read the life of St. Vincent de Paul, and he admits that he did not receive the sacraments at death. Relatives put rosary beads in his hands, and the Catholic Encyclopedia claims him as a Catholic in virtue of the fact and of an anonymous and inconclusive statement about him. Wheeler says in his Dictionary of Freethinkers that in his prime Pasteur was Vice-President of the British Secular (Atheist) Union; and Wheeler was the chief Secularist writer of the time. The evidence is overwhelming. Yet the Catholic scientist Sir Bertram Windle assures his readers that "no person who knows anything about him can doubt the sincerity of his attachment to the Catholic Church," and all Catholic writers use much the same scandalous language.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Louis Pasteur|year=2000|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-6529-9|author=Patrice Debré|page=176|quote=Does this mean that Pasteur was bound to a religious ideal? His attitude was that of a believer, not of a sectarian. One of his most brilliant disciples, Elie Metchnikoff, was to attest that he spoke of religion only in general terms. In fact, Pasteur evaded the question by claiming quite simply that religion has no more place in science than science has in religion.&nbsp;... A biologist more than a chemist, a spiritual more than a religious man, Pasteur was held back only by the lack of more powerful technical means and therefore had to limit himself to identifying germs and explaining their generation.}}</ref>] Dia juga menentang pencampuran sains dengan agama. <ref>{{cite book|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers|year=1945|publisher=Haldeman-Julius Publications|url=http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/dictionary.html|author=Joseph McCabe|accessdate=11 August 2012|quote=The anonymous Catholic author quotes as his authority the standard biography by Vallery-Radot, yet this describes Pasteur as a freethinker; and this is confirmed in the preface to the English translation by Sir W. Osler, who knew Pasteur personally. Vallery-Radot was himself a Catholic yet admits that Pasteur believed only in "an Infinite" and "hoped" for a future life. Pasteur publicly stated this himself in his Academy speech in 1822 (in V.R.). He said: "The idea of God is a form of the idea of the Infinite whether it is called Brahma, Allah, Jehova, or Jesus." The biographer says that in his last days he turned to the Church but the only "evidence" he gives is that he liked to read the life of St. Vincent de Paul, and he admits that he did not receive the sacraments at death. Relatives put rosary beads in his hands, and the Catholic Encyclopedia claims him as a Catholic in virtue of the fact and of an anonymous and inconclusive statement about him. Wheeler says in his Dictionary of Freethinkers that in his prime Pasteur was Vice-President of the British Secular (Atheist) Union; and Wheeler was the chief Secularist writer of the time. The evidence is overwhelming. Yet the Catholic scientist Sir Bertram Windle assures his readers that "no person who knows anything about him can doubt the sincerity of his attachment to the Catholic Church," and all Catholic writers use much the same scandalous language.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Louis Pasteur|year=2000|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-6529-9|author=Patrice Debré|page=176|quote=Does this mean that Pasteur was bound to a religious ideal? His attitude was that of a believer, not of a sectarian. One of his most brilliant disciples, Elie Metchnikoff, was to attest that he spoke of religion only in general terms. In fact, Pasteur evaded the question by claiming quite simply that religion has no more place in science than science has in religion.&nbsp;... A biologist more than a chemist, a spiritual more than a religious man, Pasteur was held back only by the lack of more powerful technical means and therefore had to limit himself to identifying germs and explaining their generation.}}</ref>