The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

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.

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.