Jean Rostand

Renown? I’ve already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have…

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us…

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current…

To be adult is to be alone…

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much…

God, that dumping ground of our dreams…

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

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror…

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is…

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

In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s…

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few…

A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would…

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it…

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the…