Louis Pasteur Quotes

1822–1895 France

Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) French microbiologist, chemist, pioneer of the "Germ theory of disease", discoverer of molecular asymmetry and stereo-chemistry, and inventor of the process of Pasteurization.

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Also known as: Pasteur, Pasteur, Louis, Lowis Paster

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I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.

It is within the power of every living man to rid himself of every parasitic disease.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem (2001)

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.

The Life of Pasteur (1902)

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.

Revue Scientifique (1871)

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...

Free Lance of Science (1960)

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?

Discours de réception de Louis Pasteur (1882)

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.

The Life of Pasteur (1902)

The human spirit, driven by an invincible force, will never cease to ask: What is beyond?

Discours de réception de Louis Pasteur (1882)

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.

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.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Free Lance of Science (1960)

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 deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

The Life of Pasteur (1902)

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.

The Life of Pasteur (1902)

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.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. 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.

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