A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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

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 Quote

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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.
- Jean Rostand Quote

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
- Jean Rostand Quote

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
- Jean Rostand Quote

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
- Jean Rostand Quote

Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
- Jean Rostand Quote

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- Jean Rostand Quote

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
- Jean Rostand Quote

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
- Jean Rostand Quote

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
- Jean Rostand Quote

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
- Jean Rostand Quote

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
- Jean Rostand Quote

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
- Jean Rostand Quote

Theories pass. The frog remains.
- Jean Rostand Quote

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
- Jean Rostand Quote

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
- Jean Rostand Quote

To be adult is to be alone.
- Jean Rostand Quote

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
- Jean Rostand Quote

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
- Jean Rostand Quote

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

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
- Jean Rostand Quote