Quotes by Jean Rostand

Jean Rostand

Jean Rostand

French writer

Lived from: 1894 - 1977

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 30 october 1894 Died: 4 september 1977

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  • 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.
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  • Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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  • 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.
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  • We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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  • 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.
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