Jean Rostand Quotes

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

To be adult is to be alone.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about...

To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

God that dumping ground of our dreams.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array...

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

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.