Quote

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

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
Men
Brought
Fever
Importance
Phenomena
Since
Capital
Practice
Closer
Times
Illness
Natural
Particularly
Two
Medicine
Endeavored
Together
Ancient
Fermentation

More quotes by Louis Pasteur

Image
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.
Louis Pasteur
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...
Louis Pasteur
Image
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
Image
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.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries
Louis Pasteur
Image
Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world
Louis Pasteur
Image
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.
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
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Louis Pasteur
Image
Science belongs to no one country.
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
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Image
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
Image
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Louis Pasteur
Image
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
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