Jean Rostand - Science Quotes

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

Jean Rostand
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Jean Rostand
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Jean Rostand
By showing us the extreme diversity of the factors involved in scientific creativity, the history of science teaches us that we should open the doors of our laboratories more widely. If we put that lesson into practice, our reflection on the past will have had a beneficial effect on the future.

Jean Rostand
[Biology] is the least self-centered, the least narcissistic of the sciences — the one that, by taking us out of ourselves, leads us to re-establish a link with nature and to shake ourselves free from our spiritual isolation.

Jean Rostand
If there is one notion that clearly emerges from the history of science, and from which we can learn something, it is, I believe, the extreme diversity of the personal qualities and abilities that have contributed to the advancement of our knowledge.

Jean Rostand