Louis Pasteur

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

— Louis Pasteur

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

— Louis Pasteur

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.

— Louis Pasteur

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

— Louis Pasteur

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity”

— Louis Pasteur

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

— Louis Pasteur

The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would…

— Louis Pasteur

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of…

— Louis Pasteur

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

— Louis Pasteur

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

— Louis Pasteur

The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between…

— Louis Pasteur

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

— Louis Pasteur

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in…

— Louis Pasteur

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I…

— Louis Pasteur

Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two…

— Louis Pasteur

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal…

— Louis Pasteur

Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This…

— 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…

— 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…

— Louis Pasteur

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

— Louis Pasteur

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

— Louis Pasteur

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

— Louis Pasteur

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

— Louis Pasteur

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

— Louis Pasteur

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

— Louis Pasteur

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

— Louis Pasteur

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

— Louis Pasteur

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

— Louis Pasteur

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

— Louis Pasteur

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

— Louis Pasteur

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

— Louis Pasteur

Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world

— Louis Pasteur

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

— Louis Pasteur

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

— Louis Pasteur

Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

— Louis Pasteur

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

— Louis Pasteur

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

— Louis Pasteur