Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.

When 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.

These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.