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Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur
Age: 72 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 27
Died: 1895
Died: September 28
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Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot. (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
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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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It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
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The only thing that can bring joy is work.
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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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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.
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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.
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Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
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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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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.
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Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
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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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I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.
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To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
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