Louis Pasteur Quotes
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
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.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.
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.
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
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.
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?
Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.
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.
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 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.