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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. – 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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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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Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. – Edgar Saltus

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

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It is people who make me seasick—not the sea. But I am afraid that science has yet to find a solution for this ailment. – Albert Einstein, 1930

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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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