In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares. Louis Pasteur More Quotes by Louis Pasteur More Quotes From Louis Pasteur Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism. Louis Pasteur barren careers may Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness. Louis Pasteur mystery quality lying The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. Louis Pasteur astrology nuclear form It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. Louis Pasteur remembrance hero motivational 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? Louis Pasteur democracy real men Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything. Louis Pasteur terrain germs Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur business life past God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed. Louis Pasteur life-and-death stones may The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry. Louis Pasteur delicate flavor wine To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body. Louis Pasteur agents science knowledge The universe is asymmetric. Louis Pasteur universe Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. Louis Pasteur philosopher one-day laughing 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? Louis Pasteur progress eternity matter 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. Louis Pasteur fruit discovery hands There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. Louis Pasteur technology science past The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it. Louis Pasteur disorder direct mind If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work. Louis Pasteur support-you journey hands Chance favours the trained mind. Louis Pasteur favour chance mind If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world. Louis Pasteur hard-work science country There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. Louis Pasteur names science past