Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis PasteurWithout theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.
Louis PasteurThe grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
Louis PasteurWe affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.
Louis PasteurIn 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.
Louis Pasteur