If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.
Louis PasteurThese are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
Louis PasteurI 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.
Louis PasteurThe more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Louis PasteurMy 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.
Louis Pasteur