Jean Rostand Quotes

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

Hell, Paradise, Deprived

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Jean Rostand

Life, Words, Understand

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
Jean Rostand

Different, Appearance, Glance

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand

True, Times, Three

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

Science, Forget, Important

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Jean Rostand

Sometimes, Attention, Draw

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
Jean Rostand

May, Thoughts, Enough

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand

Opinion, Takes, Survive

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Jean Rostand

Nothing, Wealth, Fortitude

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand

Truth, Nothing, Scientist

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand

Order, Credit, Hypothesis

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Jean Rostand

Human, Before, Else

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, Contempt, Whom

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Jean Rostand

Fair, Critics, Resist

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Jean Rostand

Past, Two, Again

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Jean Rostand

God, Him, Quality

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Jean Rostand

Doubt, Same, Ideal

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

Power, Vocation, Suspicious

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Jean Rostand

Men, Future, Past

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

Truth, Enough, Opinion

To be adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand

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

Time, Wish, Spend

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

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.
Jean Rostand

Work, Teacher, Him

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: October 30, 1894

Died: September 4, 1977

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