111 Quotes by Jean Rostand

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

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.

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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

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

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

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.