Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
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.