More than any writer of his period, Redi, physician to the Court of Florence, and also a poet of considerable eminence, set himself to refute the old doctrine of spontaneous generation ...

The theory of spontaneous generation, for many years scorned by most scientists, received an unexpected revival last week from George Wald, professor of Biology, at the recent meeting of the ...

Darwin's theory does not explain the origin of life and, in fact, Pasteur's demonstration that life cannot arise spontaneously, which swayed the debate permanently against spontaneous generation ...