
There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science. —
Louis Pasteur

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches. —
Louis Pasteur

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter? —
Louis Pasteur

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. —
Louis Pasteur

Chance favors those who are prepared. —
Louis Pasteur

The nights seem to me too long ... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame. —
Louis Pasteur

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness. —
Louis Pasteur

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries —
Louis Pasteur

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite. —
Louis Pasteur

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared. —
Louis Pasteur

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

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. —
Louis Pasteur

And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, Chance favors the prepared mind. —
Richard Preston

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things. —
Louis Pasteur

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. —
Louis Pasteur

Luck favors the mind that is prepared. —
Louis Pasteur

What did you do today to receive your instruction? —
Louis Pasteur

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

Science belongs to no one country. —
Louis Pasteur

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. —
Louis Pasteur

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
-Louis Pasteur —
Mitch Kynock

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 —
Louis Pasteur

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. —
Louis Pasteur

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

Luck favors the prepared." -Louis Pasteur . . . but actually for me, Edna from The Incredibles. At least I admitted it. —
Mike Gullickson

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

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it. —
Louis Pasteur

The only thing that can bring joy is work. —
Louis Pasteur

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. —
Louis Pasteur

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? —
Louis Pasteur

By chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared. —
Louis Pasteur

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

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

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

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

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. —
Louis Pasteur

Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman —
Louis Pasteur

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. —
Louis Pasteur

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could. —
Louis Pasteur

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

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. —
Louis Pasteur

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

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. —
Louis Pasteur

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery. —
Louis Pasteur

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. —
Louis Pasteur

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. —
Louis Pasteur

Lister saw the vast importance of the discoveries of Pasteur. He saw it because he was watching on the heights, and he was watching there alone. —
Thomas Clifford Allbutt

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become. —
Louis Pasteur