Jean Rostand Quotes

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

Great, Power, Humanity

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

Truth, Great, Fight

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand

God, Everybody, Assassin

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

Marriage, Wife, Thought

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Jean Rostand

Time, Same, Married

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Jean Rostand

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Jean Rostand

Reality, Away, Often

Theories pass. The frog remains.
Jean Rostand

Pass, Frog, Remains

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

Science, Men, Made

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand

Point, Sincerity, Pessimism

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

Work, Time, Science

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.
Jean Rostand

Beautiful, Mind, Human

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.
Jean Rostand

Hatred, Engaged, Garlic

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

Politics, Today, Lie

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, Bad, Stupidity

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

Human, Nobility, Strictly

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Jean Rostand

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
Jean Rostand

Thoughts, Reflect, Disturb

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand

Understand, Cannot, Watch

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Jean Rostand

Long, Old, Seeking

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Jean Rostand

Become, Equal, Origin

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand

Art, Beauty, Nothing

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean Rostand

Feeling, Nothing, Give

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
Jean Rostand

Dreams, God, Ground

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand

Often, Greatness, Order

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: October 30, 1894

Died: September 4, 1977

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