Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés." - Meaning and context.">
In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.
 • Lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854)
• Variant translations of this or similar statements include:
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.

— Louis Pasteur

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés." in the context of "In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.
 • Lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854)
• Variant translations of this or similar statements include:
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Louis Pasteur

About Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) French microbiologist, chemist, pioneer of the "Germ theory of disease", discoverer of molecular asymmetry and stereo-chemistry, and inventor of the process of Pasteurization.