Jean Rostand quotes

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. (Jean Rostand)
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Jean Rostand
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Jean Rostand
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
Jean Rostand
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Jean Rostand
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
Jean Rostand
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Jean Rostand
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. (Jean Rostand)
Theories pass. The frog remains.
Jean Rostand
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand
To be adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Jean Rostand
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
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. (Jean Rostand)
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
Jean Rostand
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
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Jean Rostand