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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
Jean Rostand
Thoughts
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Jean Rostand
Interest
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand
Men
Science
Gods
Being
Theories pass. The frog remains.
Jean Rostand
Theories
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Jean Rostand
Men
Future
Moments
Past
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
Jean Rostand
Truth
Moments
Opinion
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Jean Rostand
Computers
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Jean Rostand
Love
Idea
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.
Jean Rostand
Men
Man
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
Truth
Fight
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand
Modesty
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand
Credit
Order
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Jean Rostand
Life
Words
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Jean Rostand
Time
People
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
Work