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.
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.
It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
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.
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada.
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.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries.
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
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.
The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.