The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

Jean Rostand

Tags: morality environmentalism

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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.

Jean Rostand

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To be an adult is to be alone.

Jean Rostand

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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Jean Rostand

Tags: humor life truth

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Jean Rostand

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

Jean Rostand

Tags: science men gods

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Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Thoughts of a Biologist

Jean Rostand

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On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu.

Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

Jean Rostand

Tags: philosopher kill conqueror a-god scientist assassin murderer double-standard

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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

Tags: science time admiration achievement praise scientist louis-pasteur inconceivable

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