First Rank Quotes
- I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as… — Francis Crick
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the… — Jose Raul Capablanca
- It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block… — Anna Garlin Spencer
- If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still… — Frederic Chopin
- Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second — Victor Hugo
- A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors… — Chiang Kai-shek
- When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and… — Nguyen Tan Dung