Francois Arago Quotes

#1. RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. 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

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

Francois Arago

#4. How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. 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

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

Francois Arago

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

Francois Arago

#8. She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Kate Morton

#9. It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

George MacDonald

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

Francois Arago

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

Francois Arago

#12. If not now, when?

Eckhart Tolle

#13. Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. History at its best is vicarious experience.

Edmund Morgan