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Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks. -- Louis Pasteur
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? -- Louis Pasteur
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. -- Louis Pasteur
Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world -- Louis Pasteur
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. -- Louis Pasteur
We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
Analogy cannot serve as proof. -- Louis Pasteur
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena. -- Louis Pasteur
It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. -- Louis Pasteur
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. -- Louis Pasteur
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. -- Louis Pasteur
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
I give them experiments and they respond with speeches. -- Louis Pasteur
Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'. -- Louis Pasteur
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind -- Louis Pasteur
My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict
me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera. -- Louis Pasteur
It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of
which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded. -- Louis Pasteur
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? -- Louis Pasteur
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so. -- Louis Pasteur
Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. -- Louis Pasteur
Fortune favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries -- Louis Pasteur
Fortune favors the well-prepared. -- Louis Pasteur
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. -- Louis Pasteur
Chance favours the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Chance favours the trained mind. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
Science belongs to no one country. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it. -- Louis Pasteur
Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first. -- Louis Pasteur
The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things. -- Louis Pasteur
The only thing that can bring joy is work. -- Louis Pasteur
Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle. -- Louis Pasteur
I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. -- Louis Pasteur
Science brings men nearer to God. -- Louis Pasteur
Luck favors the mind that is prepared. -- Louis Pasteur
The Ancients understood the omnipotence of the underside of things. -- Louis Pasteur
The universe is asymmetric. -- Louis Pasteur
One must work; one must work. I have done what I could. -- Louis Pasteur
The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science. -- Louis Pasteur
Chance favors those who are prepared. -- Louis Pasteur
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. -- Louis Pasteur
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. -- Louis Pasteur
The nights seem to me too long ... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
Life comes only from life. -- Louis Pasteur
Chance favors only be prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. -- Louis Pasteur
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. -- Louis Pasteur
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation. -- Louis Pasteur
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. -- Louis Pasteur
Happy is he who bears a god within. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. -- Louis Pasteur
Science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. -- Louis Pasteur
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman -- Louis Pasteur
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 -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. -- Louis Pasteur
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 ... -- Louis Pasteur
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery. -- Louis Pasteur
Worship the spirit of criticism. -- Louis Pasteur
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work. -- Louis Pasteur
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language -- Louis Pasteur
When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Louis Pasteur
By chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared. -- Louis Pasteur
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared. -- Louis Pasteur
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. -- Louis Pasteur
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared. -- Louis Pasteur
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry. -- Louis Pasteur
Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early. -- Louis Pasteur
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. -- Louis Pasteur
Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything. -- Louis Pasteur
What did you do today to receive your instruction? -- Louis Pasteur
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite. -- Louis Pasteur
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great. -- Louis Pasteur