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
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.
When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
Fortune favors the well-prepared.
Luck favors the mind that is prepared.
The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.