Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) French microbiologist, chemist, pioneer of the "Germ theory of disease", and inventor of the process of Pasteurization.

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• Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
  • In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
  • Lecture, University of Lille (December 7, 1854)
  • Alternate translations of this or similar statements include:
    • Chance favors the prepared mind.
    • Fortune favors the prepared mind.
    • In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
    • Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

• There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
  • Revue Scientifique (1871)
    • also rendered: "There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."

• I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
  • As quoted in The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History (2004) by John M. Barry

Attributed

• Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

• Happy is he who bears a god within.

• I beseech you to take interest in these sacred domains so expressively called laboratories. Ask that there be more and that they be adorned for these are the temples of the future, wealth and well-being. It is here that humanity will grow, strengthen and improve. Here, humanity will learn to read progress and individual harmony in the works of nature, while humanity's own works are all too often those of barbarism, fanaticism and destruction.

• It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

• Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

• 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.

• 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.

• The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.

• Science brings men nearer to God.

External links

• Brief biography at the Free Information Society
• Brief biography at the Embassy of France in Canada
• Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute)
• "Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery" (1878)
• Pasteur.netbg:Луи Пастьор

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