111 Quotes by Jean Rostand

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Theories pass. The frog remains.