Astronomy Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The Telescope, the Flaxions, the inventions of Logarithms and the frenzy of multiplication, often for its own sake, that follow'd have for Emerson all…

— Thomas Pynchon

“He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of…

— George Orwell

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

“Exponentials are the devils of mathematics.”

— Liu Cixin

“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become proverbial. It…

— Camille Flammarion

“Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whitless heavy and bitter to him…

— Mark Twain

“The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders…

— Augustus De Morgan

“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of…

— Adam Smith

“When God, the great mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.…

— Ruskin Bond

“For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know how to…

— Sunday Adelaja

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand