122 Top Louis Pasteur Quotes

Chance favors those who are prepared.

  

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

Life

  

There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

  

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

  

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

  

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

  

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

  

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

  

Chance favours a prepared mind.

  

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

  

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

  

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

  

Worship the spirit of criticism.

  

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

  

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

  

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

  

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Past

  

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.

  

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

  

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

  

The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.

Life

  

There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.

  

The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.

  

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

  

Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.

  

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

  

Work usually follows will.

  

Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world

  

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.

  

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

  

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.

  

Science belongs to no one country.

  

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.

  

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

  

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

  

Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.

  

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Life

  

Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.

  

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

  

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.

  

The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.

  

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

  

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

  

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

  

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

  

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

  

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Past

  

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

  

If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.

  

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

  

The universe is asymmetric.

  

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

  

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

  

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

  

What did you do today to receive your instruction?

  

God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

  

Chance favours the trained mind.

  

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

  

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

  

Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

  

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

  

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

  

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

  

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Past

  

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

  

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

  

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

  

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

  

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

  

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

  

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

  

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

  

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

  

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.

  

Science brings men nearer to God.

  

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

  

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

  

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

  

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

  

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

  

Life comes only from life.

  

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

  

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

  

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

  

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

  

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

  

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

  

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

  

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

  

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

  

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

  

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Life

  

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

  

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

  

Chance favors the prepared mind.

  

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

  

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.

  

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

  

The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.