"Chance favors the prepared mind."

Chance, Favors, Mind

73

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Chance quotes

"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Chance, Luck, Knowledge, Life, Curiosity

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

Chance,

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Chance, Memory, Poison

"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

Chance, Now, State

"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

Chuck Jones, American Director

Chance, Children, Film, Pleasure

"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

Chance, Hindsight, World

"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

Emily Bronte, English Novelist

Chance, Potential, Danger, Delay, Time

"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."

W. G. Sebald, German Writer

Chance, Literature, Memory, Mind

"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Chance, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again."

Ricky Nelson, American Musician

Chance, Friends, Memories, Old

Explore more quotes by Louis Pasteur

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

Chance

"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."

Life

"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."

Intelligence

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

Chance

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

Goal

"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."

Difficulty

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

Accident

"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."

Science

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

May

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

Science