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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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More quotes by 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
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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
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
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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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
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand
One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
Jean Rostand
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
Jean Rostand
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
Jean Rostand
