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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
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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Kill one man, and you are murderer.
Jean Rostand
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Jean Rostand
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
Jean Rostand
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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 prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
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
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.
Jean Rostand
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
Jean Rostand
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Jean Rostand
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Jean Rostand
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Jean Rostand
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
Jean Rostand
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand
