Chance favours a prepared mind.
Interpretation
Being prepared increases the likelihood of success when opportunities arise.
This quote by Louis Pasteur emphasizes the importance of preparation and knowledge in achieving success. It suggests that opportunities, or 'chance,' are more likely to present themselves to those who have diligently prepared themselves, highlighting that while luck plays a role, diligent preparation is crucial in turning opportunities into successes.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to encourage students to study more rigorously before exams.
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. SΓ©dillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.
Chance favors those who are prepared.
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
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