Top 100 Pasteur's Quotes
#1. My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.
{Commenting about Louis Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.}
Jean-Baptiste Biot
#2. A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Jean Rostand
#3. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading
that is a good life. A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one. But who would not call Pasteur's life a good one, or Thomas Mann's?
Annie Dillard
#4. 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 certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.
Louis Pasteur
#5. Science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war.
Louis Pasteur
#6. Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Louis Pasteur
#7. 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 that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies ...
Louis Pasteur
#8. It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Pasteur
#9. The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language
the word 'enthusiasm'
en theos
a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.
Louis Pasteur
#10. To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
Louis Pasteur
#12. Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.
Louis Pasteur
#13. There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteur
#14. I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.
Louis Pasteur
#15. Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Louis Pasteur
#16. Cheesecake. Are you shitting me? Who invented that? Probably Jesus of Nazareth. Or maybe Louis Pasteur. It makes me physically sick to think that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, yet the name of the inventor of cheesecake isn't tattooed on Dick Cheney's face.
Rob Delaney
#17. It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
Louis Pasteur
#18. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#19. 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, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.
Louis Pasteur
#20. Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.
Louis Pasteur
#21. Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.
Louis Pasteur
#22. The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
Alan Watts
#24. Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
-Louis Pasteur
Mitch Kynock
#25. 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 and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.
Louis Pasteur
#26. How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?
Louis Pasteur
#27. A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it's just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it's named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur.
Jarod Kintz
#28. If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake," he said. "Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister." Freedom was a foundation for creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#29. To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.
Louis Pasteur
#30. Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Louis Pasteur
#31. Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.
Louis Pasteur
#32. 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 surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.
Louis Pasteur
#33. Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse," pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many
Bill Wasik
#34. 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 under the influence of life and all the others.
Louis Pasteur
#35. Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman
Louis Pasteur
#36. Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse
and without examining evidence which their "common sense" told them was impossible.
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. By chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.
Louis Pasteur
#38. Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.
Louis Pasteur
#39. Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
Louis Pasteur
#40. The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
Louis Pasteur
#41. Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
Louis Pasteur
#42. These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.
Louis Pasteur
#43. Lister saw the vast importance of the discoveries of Pasteur. He saw it because he was watching on the heights, and he was watching there alone.
Thomas Clifford Allbutt
#44. Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries
Louis Pasteur
#45. Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
Michael Chabon
#46. It wasn't until the 1860s, and some landmark work by Louis Pasteur in France, that it was shown conclusively that life cannot arise spontaneously but must come from pre-existing cells.
Bill Bryson
#47. One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me
Louis Pasteur
#49. If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.
Carol Alt
#50. It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of
which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.
Louis Pasteur
#51. When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.
Louis Pasteur
#52. The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
Louis Pasteur
#53. If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.
Louis Pasteur
#54. I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.
Louis Pasteur
#55. Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities--
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#60. One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.
Louis Pasteur
#61. There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
Louis Pasteur
#62. Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
Louis Pasteur
#63. The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
Louis Pasteur
#64. Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.
Louis Pasteur
#65. A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur
#66. 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 another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.
Louis Pasteur
#67. There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.
Louis Pasteur
#69. Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
Louis Pasteur
#70. 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 universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
Louis Pasteur
#71. Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
Louis Pasteur
#72. To his family, Pasteur remarks in frustration, "How difficult it is to obtain the triumph of truth! Opposition is a useful stimulant, but bad faith is such a pitiable thing. How is it that they are not struck with the results shown by statistics?
Bill Wasik
#73. I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
Louis Pasteur
#74. The nights seem to me too long ... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.
Louis Pasteur
#75. The Ancients understood the omnipotence of the underside of things.
Louis Pasteur
#76. Pasteur, L. 1854. Chance favours only the prepared mind.
John M. Ziman
#77. We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.
Louis Pasteur
#78. 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
#79. My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict
me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.
Louis Pasteur
#80. In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
Louis Pasteur
#81. Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Louis Pasteur
#82. In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
Louis Pasteur
#85. I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.
Louis Pasteur
#86. Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.
Louis Pasteur
#87. In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
Louis Pasteur
#88. And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, Chance favors the prepared mind.
Richard Preston
#90. Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
Louis Pasteur
#91. Yet had Fleming not possessed immense knowledge and an unremitting gift of observation he might not have observed the effect of the hyssop mould. 'Fortune,' remarked Pasteur, 'favors the prepared mind.
Andre Maurois
#92. You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.
Louis Pasteur
#93. Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.
Louis Pasteur
#94. There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.
Louis Pasteur
#95. Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
Louis Pasteur
#96. The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.
Louis Pasteur
#99. Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world
Louis Pasteur
#100. Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
Louis Pasteur
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