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

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand

Theories pass. The frog remains.
Jean Rostand

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

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
Jean Rostand

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

To be adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand

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

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
Jean Rostand

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

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

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

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

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand