Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteurwas a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases, and his discoveries have saved countless lives ever since. He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. His medical discoveries provided direct support for the germ theory of disease and its application in clinical medicine. He is best known...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 December 1822
CityDole, France
CountryFrance
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with a vital act, beginning and ending with the latter. I believe that there is never any alcoholic fermentation without their being simultaneously the organization, development, multiplication of the globules, or the pursued, continued life of globules which are already formed.
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.
Chance favours a prepared mind.
How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?
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.
Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.
Life comes only from life.
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language
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.
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.
There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
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.