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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
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always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Kill a man and you're a murderer. Kill many and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
To be an adult is to be alone.
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.
Theories pass. The frog remains.
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Kill one man, and you are murderer
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.