Quote by Jean Rostand
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous powe

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

Other quotes by Jean Rostand

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

Category:
Science
Read Quote

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

Category:
Future
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. – Ed Koch

Category:
power

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands societys care. – Camille Paglia

Category:
power

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. – William Pitt

Category:
power

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. – Plato

Category:
power

Random Quotes

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. – Charles Horton Cooley

Category:
Society

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. – Aphra Behn

Category:
Love

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time Im having right now being gone. – Gwen Stefani

Category:
amazing

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. – Ryan White

Category:
Education