"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."
-Jean Rostand
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"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
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"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."
-Jean Rostand
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"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."
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"God, that dumping ground of our dreams."
-Jean Rostand
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"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
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"Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you."
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
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