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Theories pass. The frog remains.

~Jean Rostand

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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

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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.

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

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: October 30th, 1894

Died: September 4th, 1977

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