Louis Pasteur Quotations | Page 2

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

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 the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

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.

Science belongs to no one country.

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

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.

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 all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

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.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

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

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.