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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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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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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Jean Rostand

Jean Rostand

Born: October 30, 1894
Died: September 4, 1977 (aged 82)
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