My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with a vital act, beginning and ending with the latter. I believe that there is never… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The… — 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
