Jean Rostand Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

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

  Jean Rostand

  Education, Science, Men

  "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.

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

  Jean Rostand

  Knowledge, Science, Important

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

• One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

  Jean Rostand

  Science, Discovery, Order

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

• 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

  Beautiful, Regret, Mistake

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

• 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

  Book, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

• 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

  Time, Hard Work, Science

  1939 'Pense es d'un Biologiste', collected inThe Substance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

• Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

  Jean Rostand

  Freedom, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

• 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

  Life, Growing Up, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

• It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Mistake, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

• Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Science, Scientist

  1939 'Pense es d'un Biologiste', collected inThe Substance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

• 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

  Teacher, Hard Work, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

• 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

  Truth, Future, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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