Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1963 |
| AUTHOR: | Louis Pasteur (1822–95) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On his 1956 Christmas card, Adlai E. Stevenson used a version of this passage which varies slightly from the arrangement and translation given above: “Not to destroy but to construct, / I hold the unconquerable belief / that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war / that nations will come together / not to destroy but to construct / and that the future belongs to those / who accomplish most for humanity.” |
| SUBJECTS: | War and peace |