Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.
Louis PasteurThe nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.
Louis PasteurNever will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
Louis PasteurThe universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.
Louis Pasteur