Quotes from Louis Pasteur

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

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.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

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

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Chance favours the trained mind.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Chance favours the prepared mind.

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

No, a thousand times no; 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 to the tree which bears it.

In the fields of observation, chance favors only 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.

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