Louis Pasteur
Fortune favors the prepared mind.Collection: Brainy
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.Collection: Success
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Collection: Knowledge
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.Collection: Science
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Intelligence
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.Collection: Respect
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
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.
One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.
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 more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.Collection: Men
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.Collection: Discovery
Chance favors the prepared mind.Collection: Inspirational
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.Collection: Atheism
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)Collection: Gentleman
It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.Collection: Worry
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.Collection: Believe
Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.Collection: Priorities
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.Collection: Roles
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Country
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mindCollection: Education
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.Collection: Philosophy
Luck favors the mind that is prepared.Collection: Inspirational
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.Collection: War
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.Collection: Change
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the languageCollection: Understanding
The only thing that can bring joy is work.Collection: Hard Work
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Men
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.Collection: Knowledge
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.Collection: Country
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?Collection: Progress
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.Collection: Journey
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.Collection: Laboratory
... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.Collection: Mind
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.Collection: Past
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.Collection: Veils
Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.Collection: Wings
Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an evolution which, as we now know, has been going on for millions, nay, hundreds of millions of years), has finally exhausted all the possibilities of producing virulent or contagious diseases - which does not seem very likely.Collection: Light
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.Collection: Life
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.Collection: Essence
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.Collection: Art
What did you do today to receive your instruction?Collection: Powerful
Analogy cannot serve as proof.Collection: Analogies
Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.Collection: Soldier