There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.
Louis PasteurIf you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
Louis PasteurMessieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
Louis PasteurThere 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.
Louis Pasteur