Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
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… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share
