Words matter. These are the best Jean Rostand Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To be adult is to be alone.
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
I don’t judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
To reflect is to disturb one’s thoughts.
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.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn’t write them again, and wouldn’t want to.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing.
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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.
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
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.
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.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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.
Theories pass. The frog remains.
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
