Quotes of Jean Rostand

Jean Rostand

To be adult is to be alone.

-Jean Rostand

alone

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

-Jean Rostand

art

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

-Jean Rostand

beauty

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

-Jean Rostand

computers

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

-Jean Rostand

dreams

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

-Jean Rostand

faith

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

future

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

-Jean Rostand

future

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

-Jean Rostand

god

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

-Jean Rostand

great

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.

-Jean Rostand

marriage

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

-Jean Rostand

politics

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

power

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

respect

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

-Jean Rostand

science

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

science

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

-Jean Rostand

science

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

science

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

To be adult is to be alone.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

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.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

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.

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.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

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.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

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.

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.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

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