Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostandwas a French biologist and philosopher...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 October 1894
CountryFrance
truth future science
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
reality choices taste
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
doubt enemy ideals
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
time hard-work science
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.
god dream our-dreams
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
desire infinite stills
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
book forgettable prerequisites
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
inspirational pity young
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
inspirational men killing-a-man
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
past government color
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
marriage simplify
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
vices ideals
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
believe return praise
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.
struggle goal desire
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.