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To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language
Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
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.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
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.
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
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.
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.
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?
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.
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.
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?
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.
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
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 Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
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.
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.
Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.