Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostandwas a French biologist and philosopher...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 October 1894
CountryFrance
beauty art being-beautiful
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
independent belief conviction
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
time loneliness being-alone
To be adult is to be alone.
faith stupid vanity
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.
knowledge important forget
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
time men long
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
giving feelings said
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
love ideas littles
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
science discovery order
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
beautiful regret mistake
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.
funny death badass
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.
self-worth important
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
education science men
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
envy gossip people
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.