Jean Rostand
Scientist
1894-10-30
Quotes by Jean Rostand
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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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.
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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.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
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Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a god.
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
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Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
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A married couple are well suited when both partners feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
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To be adult is to be alone.
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Kill a man and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
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