The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

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.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

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.

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

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

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.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

The universe is asymmetric.

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

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

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

What did you do today to receive your instruction?

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.

Chance favours the trained mind.

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

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

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

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?

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.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

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

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

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

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

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

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

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.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

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.

Science brings men nearer to God.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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

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

Life comes only from life.

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.