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Science Quotes by Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur insists that science has no country and belongs to all humanity. He explains that science grows by answering ever more subtle questions, getting closer to the true nature of things. He also reminds us that time is the best judge of a discovery’s worth.

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Science belongs to no one country.

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Science brings men nearer to God.

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

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Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

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I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

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

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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

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

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

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

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

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The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

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

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

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There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are…

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

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Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

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

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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the…

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Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence…

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If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in…

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

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

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

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

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We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must…

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

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After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of…

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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

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

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I…

Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman

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…

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

Science belongs to no one country.

Work usually follows will.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

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

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

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

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

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

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