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“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
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“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
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“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
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“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
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“Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)”
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“The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.”
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“whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism, do not let yourselves be discouraged by the sadness of certain hours which pass over nations. Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries. Say to yourselves first : ' What have I done for my instruction ? ' and , as you gradually advance, 'What have I done for my country?' until the time comes when you may have the immense happiness of thinking that you have contributed in some way to the progress and to the good of humanity. But, whether our efforts are or not favoured by life, let us be able to say, when we come near the great goal, ' I have done what I could”
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“Chance favours the prepared mind.”
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“Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world”
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“The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.”
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“Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
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“When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.”
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“A bit of science distances one from God, but much science nears one to Him.”
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“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
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“There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die. ”
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“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
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“Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares - Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind”
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“I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.”
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“In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.”
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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity”
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“The Ancients understood the omnipotence of the underside of things.”
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“Chance favors only the prepared mind”
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“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. ”
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“There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.”
― Correspondence of Pasteur and Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations
― Correspondence of Pasteur and Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations
“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.”
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“Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring.”
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“I am on the verge of mysteries, and the veil which covers them is getting thinner and thinner. The night seems to me too long....Life as manifested to us is a function of the asymmetry of the universe. ...The universe is asymmetrical; for, if all the bodies in motion which compose the solar system were placed before a glass, the image in it could not be superimposed upon the reality....Terrestrial magnetism...the opposition between positive and negative electricity, are but resultants of asymmetrical actions and movements....Life is dominated by asymmetrical actions . I can even imagine that all living species are primordially in their structure, in their external forms, functions of cosmic asymmetry.”
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“The idea of God is a form of the idea of the Infinite. As long as the mystery of the Infinite weighs on human thought, temples will be erected for the worship of the Infinite, whether God be called ‘Brahma,’ ‘Allah,’ ‘Jehovah,’ or ‘Jesus’; and on the pavement of those temples men will be seen kneeling, prostrate, annihilated, in the thought of the Infinite. At these supreme moments there is something in the depths of our souls which tells us that the world may be more than a mere continuation of phenomena proper to a mechanical equilibrium brought out of the chaos of the elements through the gradual action of the forces of matter.”
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“I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.”
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