Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

Life comes only from life.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.

Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.

My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.