Louis Pasteur Quotes about Knowledge

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

Believe, Knowledge, Mind

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.

Louis Pasteur

Country, Hard Work, Knowledge

1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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.

Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Science, Agents

Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1910). “Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”