Science had better not free ...

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
 Jean Rostand

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
 Jean Rostand
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
 Jean Rostand
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
 Jean Rostand
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
 Jean Rostand
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.
 Jean Rostand