Louis Pasteur Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Science, Technology

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

• 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.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Hard Work, Knowledge

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

• You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

  Louis Pasteur

  War, Ignorance, Science

  Speech at celebration honoring his seventieth birthday, the Sorbonne, Paris, France (December 27, 1892); "The life of Pasteur" by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, Vol. 2, (p. 297), 1902.

• Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an evolution which, as we now know, has been going on for millions, nay, hundreds of millions of years), has finally exhausted all the possibilities of producing virulent or contagious diseases - which does not seem very likely.

  Louis Pasteur

  Light, Years, Humanity

  "Louis Pasteur: The man and his theories" by Hilaire Cuny, translated by P. Evans. London: The Scientific Book Club, 1965.

• Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 07, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 140, archive.org. 1902.

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