“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”

— Louis Pasteur, Lecture at the University of Lille (7 December 1854)

About Louis Pasteur

1822 – 1895

French chemist and microbiologist who developed pasteurization and helped establish the germ theory of disease.

“In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.”

“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science.”

“Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries.”

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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

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“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

“He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be done, and he did it.”