Francois Arago Quotes
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To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.
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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…
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A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates…
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In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
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The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great…
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The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.
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Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated…
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Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
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I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have…
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