“My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. { Commenting about Louis Pasteur 's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals .}” — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the famous Postulatum of Euclid , relative to the theory of parallels. This demonstration rested on an obvious paralogism, which appeared as such to everybody; and probably Lagrange also recognised it such during his lecture. For, when… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share
“My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. { Commenting… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
