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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- Jean Rostand
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#Other
#Pessimism
#Point
#Sincerity
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
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#Possible
#Student
#Teacher
#Work
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
- Jean Rostand
#End
#Me
#Mouth
#Scene
#Tried
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
- Jean Rostand
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#Ideal Man
#Image
#Man
#Men
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
- Jean Rostand
#Disturb
#Reflect
#Thoughts
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 some perspective, appear prophetic.
- Jean Rostand
#Day
#Future
#Perspective
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#Truth
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
- Jean Rostand
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#Need
#Same
#Time
#Well
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
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#Great
#Humanity
#Power
#Us
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
- Jean Rostand
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#Know
#Science
#She
#Sometimes
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
- Jean Rostand
#Feel
#Marriage
#Never
#She
#Wife
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
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#Direction
#Faith
#See
#Stupidity
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
- Jean Rostand
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#Long
#Man
#Old
#Something
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
- Jean Rostand
#Art
#Beauty
#Nothing
#Often
#Ugliness
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
- Jean Rostand
#Our Time
#People
#Spend
#Time
#Wish
Theories pass. The frog remains.
- Jean Rostand
#Frog
#Pass
#Remains
#Theories
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
- Jean Rostand
#Assassin
#Conqueror
#Everybody
#God
#Man
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
- Jean Rostand
#Always
#Fight
#Great Minds
#Great
#Truth
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
- Jean Rostand
#Being
#Gods
#Men
#Science
#Us
#Worthy
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
- Jean Rostand
#Computers
#Think
#Us
#Why
To be adult is to be alone.
- Jean Rostand
#Adult
#Alone
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