Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day. Jean Rostand More Quotes by Jean Rostand More Quotes From Jean Rostand 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 certainmenthinking 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 vanitystupidfaith Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. Jean Rostand saidfeelingsgiving To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. Jean Rostand littlesloveideas 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. Jean Rostand regretmistakebeautiful To be adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand being-alonelonelinesstime The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. Jean Rostand readingwritingbook 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. Jean Rostand hard-worktimescience We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. Jean Rostand modestywatches One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. Jean Rostand discoveryorderscience It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. Jean Rostand governmentcolorpast If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it. Jean Rostand mensciencebook To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach. Jean Rostand goalstruggledesire To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires. Jean Rostand eyeartistinspire To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts. Jean Rostand thinking There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well. Jean Rostand sizewellscutting It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. Jean Rostand truthmistakescience Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. Jean Rostand scientisttruthscience Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. Jean Rostand fairscriticscriticism There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. Jean Rostand costtruthwould-be
