We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot. " (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word. )
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what you should be spending your life is in spreading and deepening that tradition.