Louis Pasteur Quotes - Page 2

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

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.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

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.

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

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.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

Chance favours the trained mind.

Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

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

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

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?

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

The universe is asymmetric.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world