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Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
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More quotes by Jean Rostand
On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
Jean Rostand
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
Jean Rostand
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
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
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
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Jean Rostand
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Jean Rostand
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
Jean Rostand
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
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
Jean Rostand
