Chance favors a prepared mind, he knew.

There was always an element of fate, of luck, in these things, but chance, as the saying went, generally favored the prepared mind.

His favorite saying came back to him: "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Well, chance favors the prepared mind, they say.

Chance favors the prepared mind, but discovery favors the rested one.

"When you have a prepared mind ready to receive some signal from nature, then you have real progress," he said.

And a prepared mind is usually what it takes.

Chance," he intoned, "favors the prepared mind, as somebody or another said.

An old saying, attributed to Pasteur, proclaims that fortune favors the prepared mind.

"Chance favors the prepared mind, of course," he was saying, wineglass in hand.