All Jean Rostand Quotes
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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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.
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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
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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.
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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