Jean Rostand Quotes About Science
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What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
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If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.
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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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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.
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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.
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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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