Louis Pasteur Quotes

• Outside their laboratories, the physician and chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

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• Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

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• Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind.

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

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• Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it – an ideal of art, of science, or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

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• Fortune favors the prepared mind.

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• Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

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

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

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

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Louis Pasteur (17)

Birth:	27th December, 1822
Death:	28th September, 1895
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Chemist, Founder, Microbiologist

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