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.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity. - Jean Rostand
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
- Jean Rostand
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. - Jean Rostand
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. - Jean Rostand
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any. - Jean Rostand
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong. - Jean Rostand
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. - Jean Rostand
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. - Jean Rostand
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. - Jean Rostand
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. - Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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