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> [I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/i-regarded-as-quite-useless-the-reading-of-large-treatises-of-pure/)

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## More by Joseph-Louis Lagrange

> [ I do not know. \[summarising his life's work\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/i-do-not-know-summarising-his-life-s-work/)

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> [I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/i-regarded-as-quite-useless-the-reading-of-large-treatises-of-pure/)

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> [As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/as-long-as-algebra-and-geometry-have-been-separated-their-progress/)

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> [The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/the-ordinary-operations-of-algebra-suffice-to-resolve-problems-in-the/)

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> [The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/the-reader-will-find-no-figures-in-this-work-the-methods-which-i-set/)

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> [It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/it-has-cost-them-but-a-moment-to-cut-off-that-head-but-a-hundred/)

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> [If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/if-i-had-inherited-a-fortune-i-should-probably-not-have-cast-my-lot/)

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> [It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/it-took-the-mob-only-a-moment-to-remove-his-head-a-century-will-not/)

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> [“{ Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier 's execution during the French Revolution } Only a moment to cut off that head and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/comment-to-delambre-on-chemist-antoine-lavoisier-s-execution-during/)

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> [Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-louis-lagrange/newton-was-the-greatest-genius-that-ever-existed-and-the-most/)

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