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Jean Rostand Quotes

French - Scientist | October 30, 1894 - September 4, 1977

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 a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Work Science Path Time Man Chance

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.

Work Teacher Easy Student Possible

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

Science Know Forget Sometimes She

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Truth Nothing Scientist Premature

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science Men Worthy Being Us Made

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Independent Human Human Being Being

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

Future Men Past Wish Moments Built

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

Attention Sometimes Error Well Draw

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Reality Honest Books Lies Jargon

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Time People Wish Our Time Whom Our

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Sincerity Point Pessimism Even Other

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

Man Become Equal Origin Destined He

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