Jean Rostand Truth Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.