Quotes from Louis Pasteur

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.

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.

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

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.