Top 49 Louis Pasteur Quotes - The Famous French chemist & microbiologist

Louis Pasteur
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Change only favors minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Bernard was right, the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen?
Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Science brings men nearer to God.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Life comes only from life.
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.
Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.
Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.
It is not the germs we need worry about, it is our inner terrain.
Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.
If science has no country, the scientist should have one,
and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
Austerity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
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.
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements,
in a relation with the motions of the universe.
A bit of science distances one from God, but much science nears one to him.
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit.
Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.
You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions.
Everything grows clear in the reflections from the infinite.
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language.
The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.
To bring oneself to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress.
To persuade others is the second.
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.
Happy is he who bears a God within, and who obeys it.
The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
