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The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.

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Spring, Inspiration, Men

"Spiritual Literacy : Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life". Book by Frederic Brussat and Mary Ann Brussat, 1998.

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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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Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

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Real, Men, Democracy

Lecture delivered after the death of Émile Littré, April 27, 1882.

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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

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Astrology, Nuclear, Form

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The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

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Believe, Spirit, Malfunction

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Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.

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Wine, Giving, Drink

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The universe is asymmetric.

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Universe

"Works Vol. 1". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Magazine, June 1, 1874.

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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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Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

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Discovery, Hands, Fruit

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Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world

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Country, Light, World

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Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a danger only if he transforms them into fixed ideas-this is why I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: 'The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.'

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Believe, Ideas, Profound

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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

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Barren, Skepticism, Skeptic

The Louisville & Nashville Employes' Magazine, Volume 20, p. 28, 1944.

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When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul.

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Believe, Fighting, Discovery

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To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.

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Believe, Self, Progress

Louis Pasteur, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb (1879). “Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them”

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Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

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Food, Drinking, Health

Etudes sur le vin Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. B

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Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

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Lying, Quality, Mystery

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

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Life, Business, Past

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

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Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

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Laughing, One Day, Philosopher

"The Literary Digest" Magazine, October 18, 1902.

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The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

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Mind, Disorder, Direct

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God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

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Life And Death, May, Stones

"The Life of Pasteur" published by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, (p. 114), 1902.

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La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

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Favors, Fortuna

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What did you do today to receive your instruction?

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Powerful, Today, Instruction

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Worship the spirit of criticism.

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Criticism, Spirit, Worship

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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.

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Children, Believe, Men

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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.

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Would Be, Generations, Opinion

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

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Born: December 27, 1822
Died: September 28, 1895
Occupation: Chemist
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