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
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.
It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.
Analogy cannot serve as proof.
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.
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.
My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.
The universe is asymmetric.