Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostandwas a French biologist and philosopher...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 October 1894
CountryFrance
knowledge important forget
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
time men long
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
giving feelings said
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
love ideas littles
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
science discovery order
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
beautiful regret mistake
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
funny death badass
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.
self-worth important
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
education science men
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
envy gossip people
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
men thinking certain
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.
god
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god
men killing-a-man murderer
Kill one man, and you are murderer
ask conflict men merely pure whose
We are not nanve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.