“If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

” I

think this quote means that to see further into depth in science, you have to

use the knowledge from the people that discovered great things in life (well

in science related). Just like when Louis Pasteur saw Matthias’s and Theodor’s

cell theory, he discovered a flaw in their theory, and tried to find his own

solution to the flaw they had.

Theodor Schwann who was a anatomist and physiologist, studied

animal and Matthias Schleiden who was german botanist, studied plants.

They saw each other's research and realised that both animals and plants

had cells in them. Soon enough they developed the cell theory, there was

just one slip up..half of the theory was wrong. They still believed in

spontaneous generation, where the cells just appeared out of nowhere. They

would try man experiments just to prove that their theory, but every

experiment failed.

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist, he saw the cell

theory and knew that something wasn’t right. He didn't believe that cells just

appeared out of nowhere, so he created a flask that would be able to keep

dust out and prove that cells did not appear out of nowhere. He tested it with

two flasks which both had nutrient broth, but he broke one neck of a flask to

let the dust fall in. In the broken flask with dust in it, started showing

microbial life and the other flash didn’t show any signs of cells forming, so

then it was a fact that spontaneous generation did not happen.

This all shows that if Louis never stumbled upon this theory or even
wondered about it, who knows when someone would have ever figured out

that it was wrong? Or what if Matthias and Theodor never even came up with

the cell theory? What would have other people made up? Would we know

this much about cells without them?

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