In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
Louis PasteurIn matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.
Louis PasteurWhen one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.
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