Top 30 Fourier's Quotes
#1. Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.
Lord Kelvin
#2. [Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...
Lord Kelvin
#3. Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.
Bruce Hood
#4. Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."
Kenny Smith
#5. Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
Charles Fourier
#6. Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
Charles Fourier
#7. The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.
Joseph Fourier
#8. Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll
#9. The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Charles Fourier
#10. One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women
Charles Fourier
#11. A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better.
Paul Halmos
#12. Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Charles Fourier
#13. Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
Charles Fourier
#14. Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.
Peter Kropotkin
#15. There is no room in research for morals. Morals cloud judgement. Morals taint conclusions. Morals define unwanted prejudices. They are not welcome in any lab of mine.
Edward Martin III
#16. Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people ...
Charles Fourier
#17. Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
Charles Fourier
#20. It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
Charles Fourier
#21. For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.
John Carroll
#22. When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#23. True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
Richard Hamming
#24. Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
Charles Fourier
#26. True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
William Butler Yeats
#27. Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.
Joseph Fourier
#28. The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
Charles Fourier
#29. Commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.
Charles Fourier
#30. Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.
Joseph Fourier
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