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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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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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Renown? Ive already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. – Jean Rostand

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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. – Robert H. Schuller

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? – George Byron

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