Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostandwas a French biologist and philosopher...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 October 1894
CountryFrance
mouths pebbles scene
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
power vocation suspicious
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
thinking
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
anniversary marriage couple
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
truth future science
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.
reality choices taste
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
doubt enemy ideals
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
time hard-work science
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.
god dream our-dreams
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
desire infinite stills
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
book forgettable prerequisites
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
inspirational pity young
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
inspirational men killing-a-man
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
past government color
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.