Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostandwas a French biologist and philosopher...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 October 1894
CountryFrance
ask conflict men merely pure whose
We are not nanve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
men killing-a-man murderer
Kill one man, and you are murderer
men thinking certain
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.
destiny men equal
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
military men assassins
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
god men assassins
On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
science men mind
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
men hatred atheism
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
book men discovery
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.
inspirational men killing-a-man
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
jobs teaching men
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
past men wish
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
men yield understanding
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
atheist men quality
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.