Quotes by Jean Rostand

“Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said”

“A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.”

“Ive had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didnt.”

“Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”

“We spend our time envying people whom we wouldnt wish to be”

“I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”

“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”

“Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.”

“I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.”

“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.”

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

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.

God that dumping ground of our dreams.

To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte cest etre seul).

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.