111 Quotes by Jean Rostand

We are not nanve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Kill one man, and you are murderer

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

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

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.

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.

Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.