Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
Louis Pasteur
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Needs
Terrain
Germs
Inner
Worry
Need
More quotes by Louis Pasteur
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language
Louis Pasteur
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
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.
Louis Pasteur
Worship the spirit of criticism.
Louis Pasteur
Luck favors the mind that is prepared.
Louis Pasteur
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
Life comes only from life.
Louis Pasteur
... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.
Louis Pasteur
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
Louis Pasteur
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress to persuade others is the second.
Louis Pasteur
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Louis Pasteur
My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.
Louis Pasteur
Science belongs to no one country.
Louis Pasteur
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
Louis Pasteur
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
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.
Louis Pasteur
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.
Louis Pasteur
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Louis Pasteur
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
Louis Pasteur
