"A time will come when the science of……" — Francois Arago
"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 new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it."
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9 Quotes by Francois Arago
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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…
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In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost…
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The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the…
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The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist,…
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Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege…
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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…
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