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Quote by Jean Rostand
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires wit

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. – Jean Rostand

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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

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Science
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Jean Rostand
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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

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Future
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve. – Alexander Pope

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For the admired there are many, for the admirer there is one. – Adnan Mithani

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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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