Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Popular Topics
Air, Excellent, Live, Oceans, Leadership, Kids, Book, Journey, Glory, Songs, Impossible, Inspired, English, Religion, Character, Soccer, Comfortable, Disco, Gold, Dance, Talent, House, Adventure, Story, Inspiring, Song, Amazing Music, Future, Lives, Weak, Bible, Flower, Snows, Guru, I Miss You, Identity, Hip Hop, Fly, Surprised, Possible, Stage, Knowledge, Enthusiast, Perfect Love, Achievement, Ideas, Happy, Intelligent, Bear, Wonderful
Francois Arago

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

Deny, Everything, Explain, Know How, Should
Same Author Quotes

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 products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it.

Art, General, Peace, People, Rank, Science

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

Air, Breathe, Eagles, Effort, Men

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 since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.

Animals, Circumstances, Heart, Men, Science, Subject

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

Eye, Eyes, Genius, Privilege, Science, Vulgar

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, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!

Men, Nature, Precious, Science, Spring
Similar Quotes