“ There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. Jean Rostand
“ 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. Jean Rostand
“ It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. Jean Rostand
“ Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you. Jean Rostand
“ A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. Jean Rostand
“ One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god. Jean Rostand
“ 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… 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. Jean Rostand
