Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of disease. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of microbiology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch. Pasteur also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals. His body lies beneath the Institute Pasteur in Paris in a spectacular vault covered in depictions of his accomplishments in Byzantine mosaics.
“Chance favours the prepared mind.”
“Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world”
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
“Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares - Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind”
“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.”
“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. ”
“There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die. ”
“Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)”
“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
“The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.”
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”