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Louis Pasteur
Age: 72 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 27
Died: 1895
Died: September 28
Agronomist
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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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The only thing that can bring joy is work.
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One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language
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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?
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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.
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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.
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One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.
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To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
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Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...
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After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.
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It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
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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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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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If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
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Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
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Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.
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... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.
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It is a matter of fact I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.
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There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.
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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.
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