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Jean Rostand

"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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"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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"You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments."

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"The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to radiation exposures."

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"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."

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"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."

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"Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain."

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"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."
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