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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

— Jean Rostand

God that dumping ground of our dreams.

— Jean Rostand

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

— Jean Rostand

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

— Jean Rostand

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

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

— Jean Rostand

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

— Jean Rostand