To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain? — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
