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
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.
There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies...
There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.
Science brings men nearer to God.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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.
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.
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.