Jean Le Rond D'Alembert Quotes

#1. Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#2. Just go on..and faith will soon return.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#3. The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#4. Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#5. I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#6. Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#7. Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#8. One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#9. In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#10. Push on and faith will catch up with you.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#11. The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected ... Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#12. High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit - reptiles and eagles.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#13. There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#14. A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#15. To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert