Pasteur’s life is a testament to the value of hard work, careful thought, and patience. He was always fascinated by the microscopic world that no one could see until he invented the microscope in 1848. Indulging his curiosity, he experimented with microorganisms, proving that disease was caused by germs. For example, he successfully proved that fermentation was not caused by “spontaneous generation” but was actually due to microbes. Here are some Louis Pasteur Quotes.
Thanks to him, we have vaccinations, pasteurized milk, and so much more. He’s one of the most influential scientists ever to live. And his words are still as powerful today as they were when he first said them over 150 years ago. We have some famous Louis Pasteur Quotes that will inspire and motivate you.
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
“Chance favors the prepared 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.”
“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
“My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.”
“It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.”
“Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind”
“These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one’s efforts.”
“Science belongs to no one country.”
“Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“Luck favors the mind that is prepared.”
“The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.”
“Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman”
“The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.”
“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.”
“Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.”
“Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.”
“The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.”
“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”
“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”
“Work usually follows will.”
“Analogy cannot serve as proof.”
“The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.”
Louis Pasteur famous quotes
“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.”
“Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.”
“Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.”
“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.”
“Do not promote what you can’t explain, simplify, and prove early.”
“After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.”
“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.”
“Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.”
“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.”
“To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.”
“Science brings men nearer to God.”
“Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.”
“It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.”
“God grant that by my persevering labors 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.”
“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?”
“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”
“Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.”
“Outside their laboratories, the physician and chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.”
“Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.”
“Worship the spirit of criticism.”
“Happy is he who bears a god within.”
“The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.”
“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.”
“Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries”
“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.”
“These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.”
“The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.”
“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.”
“Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.”
“We affirm the neutrality of Science … Science is of no country. … But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.”
“The only thing that can bring joy is work.”
“If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.”
“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.”
“Science knows no country because it is the light that illuminate the world”
“The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.”
“Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.”
“I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.”
“In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.”
“In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.”
“Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.”
“I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.”
“There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.”