Quotes by Francois Arago - Page 1

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
Knowledge
Science
Destiny
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Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
Deny
Know How
Should
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Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
Men
Air
Eagles
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Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
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Eye
Genius
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In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
Science
Long
Progress
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On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
Science
Eye
Powerful
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The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
Science
Degrees
Limits
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Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!
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Cutting
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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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Peace
People
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I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
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Animal
Heart
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The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses.
Francois Arago / Former Prime Minister Of The French Republic
Science
Hero
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