Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostandwas a French biologist and philosopher...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 October 1894
CountryFrance
teacher hard-work science
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
science men mind
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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.
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.
science discovery order
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
education science men
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
god
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god
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
truth errors attention
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
truth fighting mind
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
fame renown contempt
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
truth race littles
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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.