We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. – Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. – Jean Rostand
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. – Jean Rostand
A body of work such as Pasteurs 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
Renown? Ive already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. – Jean Rostand
In politics, yesterdays lie is attacked only to flatter todays. – Jean Rostand
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 wont one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. – 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
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. – Jean Rostand
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
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight 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
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. – 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
God, that dumping ground of our dreams. – Jean Rostand
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. – Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. – Jean Rostand
To be adult is to be alone. – Jean Rostand
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. – Jean Rostand
