"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
-Jean Rostand
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"One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.“
-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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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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