Louis Pasteur

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

— Louis Pasteur

What did you do today to receive your instruction?

— Louis Pasteur

Science brings men nearer to God.

— Louis Pasteur

Life comes only from life.

— Louis Pasteur

Worship the spirit of criticism.

— Louis Pasteur

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

— Louis Pasteur

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

— Louis Pasteur

Chance favors those who are prepared.

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful…

— Louis Pasteur

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the…

— Louis Pasteur

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the…

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation…

— Louis Pasteur

Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They…

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no…

— Louis Pasteur

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the…

— Louis Pasteur

Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of…

— 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…

— Louis Pasteur

The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a…

— Louis Pasteur

My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a…

— Louis Pasteur

Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an…

— Louis Pasteur

There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise…

— Louis Pasteur

When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,…

— Louis Pasteur

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,…

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Louis Pasteur

In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities…

— Louis Pasteur

I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted…

— Louis Pasteur