Michio Kushi with Edward Esko, Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-realization and Freedom (1994) p. 55

Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.

— Michio Kushi with Edward Esko

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world." in the context of "Michio Kushi with Edward Esko, Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-realization and Freedom (1994) p. 55" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Louis Pasteur

About Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) French microbiologist, chemist, pioneer of the "Germ theory of disease", discoverer of molecular asymmetry and stereo-chemistry, and inventor of the process of Pasteurization.