Louis Pasteur Quotes About Observation

Quotes about: Observation

• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Business, Past

  Address at inauguration of Faculty of Science, University of Lille, Lille, France, 7 Dec. 1854

• In 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 Pasteur

  Life, Mind, Favors

• In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Favors

• As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Errors, Long

• 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.

  Louis Pasteur

  Children, Believe, Men

• Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Wings, Giving, Imagination

• In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Luck, Granted, Observation

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