Louis Pasteur Quotes
French - Scientist December 27, 1822 - September 28, 1895


Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

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

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
Louis Pasteur

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Pasteur

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

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Louis Pasteur

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.
Louis Pasteur

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
Louis Pasteur

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

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
Louis Pasteur

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteur

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences.
Louis Pasteur


John Sergeant Wise Quotes
American - Author December 27, 1846 - May 12, 1913

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
John Sergeant Wise

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
John Sergeant Wise

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
John Sergeant Wise

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
John Sergeant Wise

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
John Sergeant Wise

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
John Sergeant Wise

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
John Sergeant Wise

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.
John Sergeant Wise

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John Sergeant Wise

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
John Sergeant Wise

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
John Sergeant Wise

America is good enough for us.
John Sergeant Wise

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
John Sergeant Wise

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
John Sergeant Wise

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
John Sergeant Wise

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
John Sergeant Wise

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
John Sergeant Wise

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
John Sergeant Wise

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
John Sergeant Wise

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
John Sergeant Wise

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
John Sergeant Wise

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.
John Sergeant Wise

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
John Sergeant Wise


Marlene Dietrich Quotes
American - Actress December 27, 1901 - May 6, 1992


It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
Marlene Dietrich

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
Marlene Dietrich

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich

I am at heart a gentleman.
Marlene Dietrich

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
Marlene Dietrich

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
Marlene Dietrich

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
Marlene Dietrich

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
Marlene Dietrich

I am not a myth.
Marlene Dietrich

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene Dietrich

They want you to bring out your intestines.
Marlene Dietrich

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
Marlene Dietrich

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
Marlene Dietrich

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Marlene Dietrich

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Marlene Dietrich

Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich

I never enjoyed working in a film.
Marlene Dietrich

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
Marlene Dietrich

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Marlene Dietrich

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
Marlene Dietrich

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
Marlene Dietrich