Jean Rostand

“To be adult is to be alone.”

“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.”

“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”

“God, that dumping ground of our dreams.”

“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.”