Jean Rostand Quotes

Jean Rostand (56)

Birth:	30th October, 1894
Death:	4th September, 1977
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Biologist, Philosopher

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• I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

  Jean Rostand

• God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

  Jean Rostand

• Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing.

  Jean Rostand

• A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

  Jean Rostand

• A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

  Jean Rostand

• The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

  Jean Rostand

• The ideal, without doubt varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

  Jean Rostand

• Renown? I’ve already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

  Jean Rostand

• One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

  Jean Rostand

• One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

  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

• It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

  Jean Rostand

• It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

  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

• To reflect is to disturb one’s thoughts.

  Jean Rostand

• To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

  Jean Rostand

• To be adult is to be alone.

  Jean Rostand

• There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

  Jean Rostand

• There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

  Jean Rostand

• Theories pass. The frog remains.

  Jean Rostand