Louis Pasteur Quotes
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.
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.
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?
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.
When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.
Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art of science or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
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.
