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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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind. – Joel Osteen

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The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to. – George Papandreou

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Id love to do more action stuff, in the future. – Ashley Tisdale

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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal

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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. – Emily Dickinson

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Id love to go back to Europe in the 20s and 30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged. – Michael Sheen

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Im not cool with ACORN or the working families party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines. – Doug Hoffman

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