Louis Pasteur was dining at home with his friends. When his table companions were about to eat the grapes served for dessert, Pasteur stopped them saying, "There is nothing so dangerous as eating grapes without washing them first," and he rinsed his grapes in a glass of water.
He then expatiated on all the bacilli and microbes that may be found in a cluster of grapes. Everyone listened raptly, but suddenly the spell was broken by a general burst of laughter. The scientist had unconsciously picked up a glass of water in which he had drowned so many germs and taken one long swallow. Pasteur was not the last to laugh at his absent-mindedness.
-from the book "More Anecdotes of the Great" by J. Maurus
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