Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Doubt, Skepticism
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Wine, One liners
Chance favours the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Intelligence
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Endurance, Courage, Bravery, Goal, Strength, Conviction, Goals, Resolve, Perseverance
Chance favors the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Luck, Fortune, Success, Chance
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Ideals
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Fortune
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.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Scientists, Science
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.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Effort
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.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Universe, The Universe
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Wine, One liners
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen?. Chance favors only the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Chance, Preparation, Observation
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Scientists, Science
Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Instincts
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one’s efforts.
—Louis Pasteur
Topics: Success
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.
—Louis Pasteur
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