It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce … - Joseph-Louis Lagrange

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California’s Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G. M. ) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

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As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.

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If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

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I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

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I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.

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The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

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It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

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But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

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