Jean Rostand Quotes - Page 2

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• Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

  Jean Rostand

  Giving, Feelings, Said

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• 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).

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• To be adult is to be alone.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Pens‚es d'un biologiste (Thoughts of a Biologist, 1954) p. 134

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• The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

  Jean Rostand

  God, Atheist, Men

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• The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

  Jean Rostand

  Doubt, Enemy, Ideals

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

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• There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Would Be, Cost

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

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• 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”

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• Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

  Jean Rostand

  Circles, Literature, Careful

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• 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”

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• Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

  Jean Rostand

  Inspirational, Men, Killing A Man

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• Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste.
  The biologist passes, the frog remains.

  Jean Rostand

  Frogs, Facts, Grenouille

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• Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

  Jean Rostand

  Criticism, Critics, Fairs

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

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• To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

  Jean Rostand

  Eye, Artist, Inspire

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

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• To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

  Jean Rostand

  Thinking

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

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• The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Reading, Writing

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

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• Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Reading, Forgettable

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

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• A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

  Jean Rostand

  Anniversary, Marriage, Couple

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• We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Believe, Recognition

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• 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

  Heart, Power, Humanity

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

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Certain

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

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• Kill one man, and you are murderer.

  Jean Rostand

  Men, Killing A Man, Murderer

  "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.

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• There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.

  Jean Rostand

  Said, Deserve

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• We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

  Jean Rostand

  Watches, Modesty

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

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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.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Hard Work, Science

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

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

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Fighting, Mind

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

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