Pasteur - Prepared Mind CarvingABOUT THIS CARVING Full Inscription: Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur Origins: Frenchman Louis Pasteur, perhaps best known as the inventor of the pasteurization process, first uttered his famous observation on December 7, 1854, during his very first speech as the newly appointed Dean of the Science Faculty for Lille University. While it is thought he may have said Chance favors only the prepared mind, his reported later usage of the

but very early

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This carving was created in the Craftsman style using a quintessential Craftsman letterform and grape trellis motif based on a real

and nature nurses and prepares them

We were delighted to find the complementary flower corner ornaments in an old typography catalog of the same period

When the expression “Boston Strong” started to be used in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing

While our first customer for this carving was an author

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a preeminent English designer and printer of the 1800’s

Origins: We used an old Roman stone-carving letter style befitting the formality and timelessness of Thoreau's thought and coupled it with a torch

Origins: Ruskin - Life is Wealth Carving

Please note that we also offer a longer version of this thought (Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus- Not for Ourselves Alone Are We Born) which may be preferred by some