Quote by Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

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

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Science
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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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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up. And they did. – Diane Arbus

A fools paradise is a wise mans hell! – Thomas Fuller

The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide

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The simplest explanation is that it doesnt make sense. – Professor William Buechner

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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso

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Art

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. – Marcel Proust

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. – B.F. Skinner

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Civilization