In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose..

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and t….

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,….

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 ….

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….

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist..

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….

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 i….

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts..

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air..

Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?.