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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Already at the origin of
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always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Quotations<br>always inexact. I don't trust
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Science has made us gods
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand Quotes: One kills a man, one
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Jean Rostand Quotes: I still understand a few
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
Jean Rostand Quotes: What makes our opponents useful
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Greatness, in order to gain
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: When a scientist is ahead
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
Jean Rostand Quotes: The obligation to endure gives
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Jean Rostand Quotes: It is sometimes well for
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
Jean Rostand Quotes: The biologist passes. The frog
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Being right is less important
There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.
Jean Rostand Quotes: There are some persons we
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
Jean Rostand Quotes: God, that checkroom of our
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: A few great minds are
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Kill one man and you're
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Jean Rostand Quotes: I don't judge a regime
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Marriage simplifies life and complicates
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
Jean Rostand Quotes: To be able to observe
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand Quotes: The nobility of a human
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand Quotes: I should have no use
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand Quotes: My pessimism extends to the
There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.
Jean Rostand Quotes: There are things that don't
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Somebody told me I should
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Jean Rostand Quotes: In our ideals we unwittingly
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Renown? I've already got more
Kill a man and you're a murderer. Kill many and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Kill a man and you're
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand Quotes: The least one can say
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Nothing leads the scientist so
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
Jean Rostand Quotes: Whether man is disposed to
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: To say of men that
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: A body of work such
To be an adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand Quotes: To be an adult is
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Jean Rostand Quotes: To love an idea is
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Hatred, for the man who
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Truth is always served by
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Kill a man, and you
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?
Jean Rostand Quotes: What scientist would not long
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Think? Why think! We have
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Jean Rostand Quotes: In politics, yesterday's lie is
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: If a given scientist had
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand Quotes: It takes a very deep-rooted
In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.
Jean Rostand Quotes: In art as in life
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Beauty in art is often
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand Quotes: In order to remain true
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Prerequisite for rereadability in books:
We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.
Jean Rostand Quotes: We give others praise which
Theories pass. The frog remains.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Theories pass. The frog remains.
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Science had better not free
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: It is not easy to
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
Jean Rostand Quotes: It is horrible to see
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand Quotes: I prefer the honest jargon
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Jean Rostand Quotes: There are certain moments when
Kill one man, and you are murderer
Jean Rostand Quotes: Kill one man, and you
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Jean Rostand Quotes: The divine is perhaps that
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Jean Rostand Quotes: Take heed of critics even
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Jean Rostand Quotes: A married couple are well
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.
Jean Rostand Quotes: We bestow on others praise
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Jean Rostand Quotes: The books one has written
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