Astronomers Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

“...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

— Julian Barnes

“Exponentials are the devils of mathematics.”

— Liu Cixin

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“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

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

— W.W. Rouse Ball

... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left…

— Anonymous

[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one…

— Henry Adams

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the…

— Thomas Malthus

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of…

— Eric Temple Bell