Life of Pasteur Quotes

“The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.”
― William Osler, The Life of Pasteur

“When, therefore, M. Radot, following M. Pasteur, speaks with such emphasis about ‘preconceived ideas,’ he does not mean ideas without antecedents. Preconceived ideas, if out of deference to M. Pasteur the term be admitted, are the vintage of garnered facts. We in England should rather call them inductions, which, as M. Pasteur truly says, inspire the mind, and shape its course, in the subsequent work of deduction and verification.”
― René Vallery-Radot, Louis Pasteur His Life and Labours