Top 130 Quotes & Sayings by Louis Pasteur
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Last updated on November 3, 2024.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
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.
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.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
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.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.
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.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
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 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.
Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind
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.
The only thing that can bring joy is work.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
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.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Science brings men nearer to God.
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.
Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...
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.
Chance favours the trained mind.
Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
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.
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.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Life comes only from life.
Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.
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.
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.
The universe is asymmetric.
Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
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.
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.
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?
Luck favors the mind that is prepared.
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.
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.
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