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Jean Rostand
Profession : Scientist
Birth : October 30, 1894
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Jean Rostand
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand
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
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Jean Rostand
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Jean Rostand
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
Jean Rostand
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Jean Rostand
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
Jean Rostand
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
Jean Rostand
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Jean Rostand
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Jean Rostand
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Jean Rostand
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
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
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
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand
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