French - Scientist | October 30, 1894 - September 4, 1977
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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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 of the human mind.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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Theories pass. The frog remains.
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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.
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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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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.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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