All Louis Pasteur Quotes
- You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance… Belief
- Luck favors the mind that is prepared. Favors
- In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les… Champs
- Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it,… Awakener
- Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. Change
- As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of… Been
- The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born… All
- The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the… Asymmetrical
- The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the… Acknowledging
- Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. Accidents
- 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… Act
- To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… Agent
- If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope… Always Remain
- There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one… Application
- After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the… Animal
- 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… According
- Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the… All
- Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for… Add
- I give them experiments and they respond with speeches. Experiments
- In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two… Assigned
- Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. Art
- The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God. Amazed
- In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. Atheism
- Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. Atheism
- The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. Arrangements