Jean Rostand Quotes

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• We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

  Jean Rostand

  People, Envy, Gossip

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• 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.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Death, Badass

  "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.

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

  Jean Rostand

  Education, Science, Men

  "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.

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

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Yesterday, Politics

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

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  Time, Travel, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

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  Self Worth, Important

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• When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

  Jean Rostand

  Inspirational, Pity, Young

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• 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.

  Jean Rostand

  Faith, Stupid, Vanity

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• It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

  Jean Rostand

  Past, Government, Color

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• Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

  Jean Rostand

  Marriage, Simplify

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• Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

  Jean Rostand

  Freedom, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

  Jean Rostand

  Vices, Ideals

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• 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.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.

  Jean Rostand

  Cutting, Size, Wells

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

  Jean Rostand

  Should Have, Use, Paradise

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

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  Struggle, Goal, Desire

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

  Jean Rostand

  Eye, Artist, Inspire

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

  Jean Rostand

  Desire, Infinite, Stills

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• The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

  Jean Rostand

  Independent, Belief, Conviction

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• To be adult is to be alone.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Pens‚es d'un biologiste (Thoughts of a Biologist, 1954) p. 134

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• The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

  Jean Rostand

  Power, Vocation, Suspicious

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Regret, Mistake

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Would Be, Cost

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Science, Scientist

  1939 'Pense es d'un Biologiste', collected inThe Substance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

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• We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

  Jean Rostand

  Believe, Long, Giving

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