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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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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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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.
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
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Jean Rostand
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
Jean Rostand
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
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
We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
Jean Rostand
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
Jean Rostand
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Jean Rostand
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand
