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Jean Rostand [1894-1977] French

Rank: 102
Scientist, Biologist

Jean Rostand was a French biologist and philosopher.
Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science writer, as well as a philosopher and an activist.

Science, Alone, Art, Beauty, Computers, Dreams, Faith, Future, God, Great, Marriage, Politics, Power, Teacher, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.	Art, Beauty	101
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.		102
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.	Great, Truth	103
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.	God	104
Theories pass. The frog remains.		105
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.	Marriage	106
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.		107
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.	Power	108
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.	Faith	109
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.		110
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.		111
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.		112
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.		113
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.		114
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.		115
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.	Computers	116
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.		117
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.		118
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.	Future, Science	119
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.	Science	120
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.		121
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.		122
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.	Politics	123
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.		124
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.		125
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.		126
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.		201
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.		202
To be adult is to be alone.	Alone	203
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.		204
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.		205
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.		206
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.		207
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.		208
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.		209
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.	Dreams	210
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.		211
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.		212
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.	Teacher	213
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.		214
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.		215
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.		216
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.		217
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.		218
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.		219
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.		220
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.		221
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.		222
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.		223
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.		224
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.		225
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.		226
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.		301

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