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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#how #important #know #science #she

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#disadvantages #fortitude #millionaires #more #nothing

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#basis #built #certain #few #ideal

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#confront #courage #imagined

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#body #christendom #church #created #creature

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#achievement #atom #atom bomb #became #bomb

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#created #danger #did #efforts #half

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#assembly #called #elimination #first #general

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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