Jean Rostand

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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.

Jean Rostand

marriage

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Jean Rostand

politics

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Jean Rostand

power

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.

Jean Rostand

respect

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Jean Rostand

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.

Jean Rostand

science

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Jean Rostand

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.

Jean Rostand

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.

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teacher

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand

truth

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