Francois Arago

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

— Francois Arago

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

— Francois Arago

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

— Francois Arago

Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?

— Francois Arago

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

— Francois Arago

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries…

— Francois Arago

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the…

— Francois Arago

Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging…

— Francois Arago

I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on…

— Francois Arago

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our…

— Francois Arago

The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds…

— Francois Arago