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• Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

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  Long, Preparation, Intuition

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• 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.

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  Country, Hard Work, Knowledge

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• 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.

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  Art, Spring, Lying

  Quoted by Sir William Osler in his introduction to "The Life of Pasteur" by Rene Vallery-Radot, as translated by R .L. Devonshire, 1923.

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• Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

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  Goal, Effort, Done

  "The life of Pasteur", Volume II, by Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R.L. Devonshire, (p. 228), 1911.

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

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  War, Ignorance, Triumph

  "Louis Pasteur, Free Lance of Science" by René Jules Dubos, (Ch. 3 "Pasteur in Action"), 1960.

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• The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.

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  Beautiful, Spring, Inspiration

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• If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Enemy, Body

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• Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

  Louis Pasteur

  Positive, Blessed, Ideals

  "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, archive.org. 1902.

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• Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

  Louis Pasteur

  Germs, Terrain

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• You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

  Louis Pasteur

  War, Ignorance, Science

  Speech at celebration honoring his seventieth birthday, the Sorbonne, Paris, France (December 27, 1892); "The life of Pasteur" by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, Vol. 2, (p. 297), 1902.

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• The only thing that can bring joy is work.

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  Hard Work, Joy

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• The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

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  Wine, Flavor, Delicate

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• Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

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  Essence, Answers, Natural

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• Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

  Louis Pasteur

  Careers, May, Barren

  "The life of Pasteur", Volume II, by Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R.L. Devonshire, (p. 228), 1911.

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• Chance favours the trained mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Mind, Favour, Chance

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• There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

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  Men, Looks, Wonder

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• 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.

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  Dream, Answers, Imagine

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• The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.

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  Bears

  "Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life". Book by Frederic Brussat and Mary Ann Brussat, 1996.

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• 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.

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  Success, Journey, Doors

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• Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

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  Practice, Routine, Spirit

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• There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

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  Science, Past, Technology

  Address, 11 September 1872, in 'Comptes rendus des travaux du Congrés viticole et sèricicole de Lyon, 9-14 septembre 1872' p. 49

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• Fortune favors the well-prepared.

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  Favors, Fortune, Wells

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

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  One Day, Theft, Seems

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

  Louis Pasteur

  Simplify, Prove

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• Science brings men nearer to God.

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  Men, God And Science, Science God

  "Letter to an Atheist" by Michael Patrick Leahy, (p. 61), 2007.

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