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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.Jean Rostand
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.Jean Rostand
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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.Jean Rostand
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.Jean Rostand
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God that dumping ground of our dreams.Jean Rostand
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To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).Jean Rostand
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.Jean Rostand
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.Jean Rostand
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.Jean Rostand
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.Jean Rostand
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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.Jean Rostand
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.Jean Rostand
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.Jean Rostand
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To be adult is to be alone.Jean Rostand