These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that profound ideas and actions stem from deeper reflections and connections to something greater than ourselves.
In this quote, Louis Pasteur highlights the importance of introspection and the pursuit of higher understanding as the sources of significant thoughts and actions. He suggests that clarity in our lives and endeavors arises from a connection to infinite wisdom or a larger reality, encouraging us to seek beyond the immediate and material.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference, one might use this quote to inspire deeper thinking among the audience.
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.
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.
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool β it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
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