Quote

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

Louis Pasteur

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Louis Pasteur
Age: 72 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 27
Died: 1895
Died: September 28
Agronomist
Biochemist
Biologist
Chemist
Microbiologist
Naturalist
University Teacher
Dôle
Pasteur
Experimentation
Forward
Prove
Cannot
Anything

More quotes by Louis Pasteur

Image
It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
Louis Pasteur
Image
The only thing that can bring joy is work.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Louis Pasteur
Image
When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot. (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
Louis Pasteur
Image
Worship the spirit of criticism.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.
Louis Pasteur
Image
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteur
Image
You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.
Louis Pasteur
Image
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
Image
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
Louis Pasteur
Image
... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.
Louis Pasteur
Image
What did you do today to receive your instruction?
Louis Pasteur
Image
Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible it always has the last word.
Louis Pasteur
Image
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Science belongs to no one country.
Louis Pasteur