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
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world
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.
Chance favors those who are prepared.
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
Happy is he who bears a god within.
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
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.