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
Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or arranged in such or such particular unsymmetrical fashion? We are unable to reply to these questions. But there can be no reason for doubting that the grouping of the atoms has an unsymmetrical arrangement with a non-superimposable image. It is not less certain that the atoms of the laevo-acid realize precisely an unsymmetrical arrangement of the inverse of the above.
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.
If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.
One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.
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.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
Worship the spirit of criticism.
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
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.
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?
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.