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Biologist

Jean Rostand was a French biologist renowned for his research in cytogenetics. His work had a profound impact on understanding the transmission of genetic information and the mechanisms of cell division.

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Famous Jean Rostand Quotes

“One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.”

Men Millions Military Conqueror Assassins

Author:Jean Rostand

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

Men Made Science Education Worthy

Author:Jean Rostand

“Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.”

Men Littles Atheism Hatred Positive Atheism Engaged Engagement Odor Garlic

Author:Jean Rostand

“Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.”

Men Destiny Equal Species Destined

Book:Can Man be Modified?

Source: Can Man be Modified?

“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.”

Men Whole Body Would Be Science Time Given Chance Path Creation Hard Work Accounts Crowds Our Time Given A Chance Pasteur

Author:Jean Rostand

“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”

Men Long Age Time Travel Aging Seeking Old Age Growing Old Staying Young

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.”

Men God Quality Atheism Divine Endure Atheist Permit

Author:Jean Rostand

“If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.”

Source: The substance of man

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

Men Humor Funny Death Religion Millions One Man Murderer Badass Conqueror Killing A Man

Author:Jean Rostand

“On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”

Men God Millions Conqueror Assassins Rant

Author:Jean Rostand

“Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.”

Men Mind Science Freedom Too Much Accounts Instinct Tamed

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.”

Men Doe Enough Jobs Asks Teaching Pure Conflict Obligation Ask Me Purity Impurity

Author:Jean Rostand

“To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.”

Thinking Men Certain Judgment Built Ideals Bases Ideal Man

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.”

Men Moments Might Past Certain Wish Future Built

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“Kill one man, and you are murderer.”

Men One Man Murderer Conqueror Killing A Man

Author:Jean Rostand

“Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language”

Men Language Understanding Yield

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.”

Men Inspirational Millions One Man Murderer Conqueror Cliffhanger Killing A Man

Author:Jean Rostand

About the Author

Born: October 30, 1894
Died: September 4, 1977
Known for: Biologist
Quotes: 82

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