“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
Source: The substance of man
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Famous Jean Rostand Quotes
“Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.”
Source: The substance of man
Source: The substance of man
“Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.”
“It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.”
Source: The substance of man
“Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.”
“There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.”
Source: The substance of man
Source: The substance of man
“Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.”
Source: The substance of man
“Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.”
Source: The substance of man
“We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.”
“In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.”
Source: The substance of man
“There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.”
Source: The substance of man
Source: The substance of man
“I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”
Source: The substance of man
Source: The substance of man
Source: The substance of man
“We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?”
“Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.”
Source: The substance of man
“When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.”
Source: The substance of man
“Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.”