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
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.
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.
Fortune favors the well-prepared.
Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.
The only thing that can bring joy is 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.
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.
Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.