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> [When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/when-you-believe-you-have-found-an-important-scientific-fact-and-are/)

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## More by Louis Pasteur

> [There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/there-are-no-such-things-as-applied-sciences-only-applications-of/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/nothing-is-lost-and-nothing-is-created-in-the-operations-of-art-as/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/whether-our-efforts-are-or-not-favored-by-life-let-us-be-able-to-say/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/could-i-but-know-all-i-would-have-the-faith-of-a-breton-peasant-woman/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/god-grant-that-by-my-persevering-labours-i-may-bring-a-little-stone/)

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> [Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/posterity-will-one-day-laugh-at-the-sublime-foolishness-of-the-modern/)

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> [Science belongs to no one country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/science-belongs-to-no-one-country/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [Work usually follows will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/work-usually-follows-will/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/if-science-has-no-country-the-scientist-should-have-one-and-ascribe/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/the-universe-is-asymmetric-and-i-am-persuaded-that-life-as-it-is/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/did-you-ever-observe-to-whom-the-accidents-happen-chance-favors-only/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/science-proceeds-by-successive-answers-to-questions-more-and-more/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/in-matters-of-observation-chance-favors-only-the-prepared-mind-not/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/time-is-the-best-appraiser-of-scientific-work-and-i-am-aware-that-an/)

[Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/)

> [Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/science-knows-no-country-because-knowledge-belongs-to-humanity-and-is/)

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