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 controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. – Louis Pasteur
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. – 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
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas