The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the… — 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
