111 Quotes by Jean Rostand

To be adult is to be alone.

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

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn’t eaten any.

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

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.

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.