Quote by Jean Rostand
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misund

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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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

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By doing something positive in this world, youre helping people and the future. Were all trying to help the world… make it a better place to live. Were actually still changing the world, arent we? – Rick Danko

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Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund. – Mario Monti

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The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. – Philip Emeagwali

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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