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
Louis Pasteur quotes about
Analogy cannot serve as proof.
Worship the spirit of criticism.
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.
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.
Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.
Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
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.
You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.