Fabre's famous sayings are as follows:

The best assistant in science is your own mind, not anything else.

Luck always takes a trick first, and then smiles on the perseverant.

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre, December 22, 1823 to October 11, 1915, was a famous French entomologist, litterateur, and naturalist. He is known as the "Homer of the insect world" and "Virgil of the insect world" by the world.