Science belongs to no one country.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind.
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.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
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.
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?
Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.
You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.
Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Worship the spirit of criticism.
Happy is he who bears a god within.
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.
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Life comes only from life.
The universe is asymmetric.