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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
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
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Paris
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The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
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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.
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Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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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.
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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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