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Truth Quotes by Jean Rostand
- It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
- Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
- There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
- There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
- We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
- Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
- 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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