Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

Chance favours the trained mind.

God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

What did you do today to receive your instruction?

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

The universe is asymmetric.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

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

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.