Quotes from 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?

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

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

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

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

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

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

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

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.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.

Science belongs to no one country.

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.

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

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

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.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

Science brings men nearer to God.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

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?

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.