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…

- Francois Arago

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

- Francois Arago

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

- Francois Arago

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…

- Francois Arago

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

- Francois Arago

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,…

- 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 …

- Francois Arago

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

- Francois Arago

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

- Francois Arago