"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
-Jean Rostand
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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."
-Jean Rostand
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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."
-Jean Rostand
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"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of."
-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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"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."
-Jean Rostand
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"But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm."
-Algernon H. Blackwood
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"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans."
-Michael Chertoff
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"You are forever alone."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
-Jonathan Coe
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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