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Science Quotes by Jean Rostand
- It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
- Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
- Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
- 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…
- One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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