Quotes from Jean Rostand

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

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

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

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

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.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

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

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

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

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

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

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.

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.

To be adult is to be alone.