Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 30. Oktober 1894 |
Geburtsort | Paris, France |
Todesort | Ville-d'Avray |
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Beschreibung | Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand (30 October 1894, Paris – 4 September 1977, Ville-d'Avray) was a French biologist, historian of science, and philosopher. Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science writer, as well as a philosopher and an activist. His scientific work covered a variety of biological fields such as amphibian embryology, parthenogenesis and teratogeny, while his literary output extended into popular science, history of science and philosophy. His work in the area of cryogenics gave the idea of cryonics to Robert Ettinger. He took an interest in ethics and morality in biology and wrote against pseudoscience, the use of science for war, wrote against racism and supported human equality and freedom. |
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
To be adult is to be alone.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.
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.
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
