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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

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

Men Made Science Education Worthy

Author:Jean Rostand

“Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Ideas Beautiful Science Certain Mistake Regret Achievement Errors Human Mind Ingenuity Being Beautiful Ranking Falsity

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.”

Science Order Discovery Credit Hypothesis Demolish Demolition

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“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

“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.”

Littles Science Easy Imagination Teacher Imagine Students Hard Work Honor Scientist Ease Exception

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“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.”

Truth Science Perspective Future One Day Scientist Errors Currents Intuition Misunderstanding Gross Prophetic

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“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

“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”

Knows Important Sometimes Science Forget Knowledge Know How Accounts Importance

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“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

“What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?”

Ifs Life Littles Long Light Science Grows Growing Up Goes On Scientist

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.”

Wells Sometimes Truth Science Attention Mistake Draws Errors

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

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

Truth Science Scientist Premature

Author:Jean Rostand

About the Author

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

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