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Jean Rostand
French Scientist
Born: Oct 30, 1894
Died: Sep 4, 1977
Even Feel Man Science Think Truth
Related authors: Alexis Carrel Antoine Lavoisier Bruno Latour Claude Bernard Claude Levi-Strauss Georges Cuvier Louis Pasteur Pierre Curie
To be adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand
Alone Adult
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. Jean Rostand
Faith Stupidity Cruelty Bad See Vanity Direction Facing Outrage Fail Array Falsehood Same Same Direction Iniquity Whole
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. Jean Rostand
Great Humanity Power Few Enough Monstrous Minds Worthy Great Minds Make Hearts Endow Us Using
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. Jean Rostand
Man Old Long Seeking Something He
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. Jean Rostand
Other Point Sincerity Suspecting Pessimism Pessimists Even
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. Jean Rostand
Wealth Nothing Admirable More Disadvantages Than Which Fortitude Tolerate Millionaires
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. Jean Rostand
Power Say Vocation Least Suspicious
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. Jean Rostand
Man Become Destined He Equal Origin Species
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. Jean Rostand
Our Those Must Over Understand Cannot Modesty Who Grounds Presence Watch
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 won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. Jean Rostand
Truth Future Day Science Perspective One Day Intuition Some Rather Prophetic Through Never Misunderstanding Scientist His Error Times Than Current Any Often Gross Appear
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. Jean Rostand
Thoughts Own Enough Others Our Sure Souls Hear Offend May Us Expressed
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. Jean Rostand
Too Recognition Must Greatness Often Order Gain Ape Consent
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. Jean Rostand
You Marriage Wife Thought Worse About Never Feel Remorse She Much Your Things
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. Jean Rostand
Time Suited Married Married Couple Both Feel Couple Well Partners Quarrel Same Same Time Need
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. Jean Rostand
Critics Take Fair Not Fair Heed Them Even Resist
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. Jean Rostand
Feeling Nothing Ability Give Remains Said Sentences Certain Brief
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. Jean Rostand
Respect Will Those More Never Feel Contempt Renown Got Than Much Whom
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. Jean Rostand
Enemies Doubt Varies Ideal Without Always Same Alas
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. Jean Rostand
Paradise Hell Which Prefer Deprived Should Use Right
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. Jean Rostand
Day Three Party Ought Oneself Remain True Renounce Times Order
A body of work such as Pasteur's 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
Work Time Man Science Path Pour Nowadays Our Our Time Would Would-Be Scarcely Given Crowd Opened Up Begins Create Body Whole Inconceivable Chance
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. Jean Rostand
Work Teacher Other Honors Backs Possible Easy Exception Student Him How Scientist Any Interested Little Who Imagine
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand
Science Made Men Before Worthy Gods Being Us Even
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. Jean Rostand
Future Men Wish Past Built Were Might Certain Moments
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. Jean Rostand
Reality Books Lies Outright Prefer Jargon Honest
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance. Jean Rostand
Own Think Those Take Glance Am Manage Different Who Appearance
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