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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.

Jean Rostand

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Jean Rostand suggests that scientists who seem advanced often reach their ideas by misinterpreting existing knowledge, not by accurately predicting the future. He also means that even the biggest mistakes in science can later be seen as insightful or valuable when viewed from a different angle.

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