Jean Rostand

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

— Jean Rostand

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

— Jean Rostand

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

— Jean Rostand

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand

Theories pass. The frog remains.

— Jean Rostand

The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

— Jean Rostand

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

— Jean Rostand

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

— Jean Rostand

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand

Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.

— Jean Rostand

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking…

— Jean Rostand

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in…

— Jean Rostand

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

— Jean Rostand

Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are…

— Jean Rostand

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our…

— 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

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't…

— Jean Rostand

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make…

— Jean Rostand

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In…

— Jean Rostand

If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies…

— Jean Rostand

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

— Jean Rostand

Kill one man, and you are murderer

— Jean Rostand

To be an adult is to be alone.

— Jean Rostand

To be adult is to be alone.

— Jean Rostand

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

— Jean Rostand

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

— Jean Rostand

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

— Jean Rostand

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

— Jean Rostand

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand

In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand