Science brings men nearer to God.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with a vital act, beginning and ending with the latter. I believe that there is never any alcoholic fermentation without their being simultaneously the organization, development, multiplication of the globules, or the pursued, continued life of globules which are already formed.

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.