My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a… — 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
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
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 Image
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
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 Image
