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

— Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur (1911), Vol. II, p. 228

About Louis Pasteur

1822 – 1895

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

“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”

“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.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”

“The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.”

“Let us be content to live in the mind.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”