Joseph-Louis Lagrange famous quotes

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

#Mathematics #Should #Fortune

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#Cutting #Years #Cost

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.
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#Two #Long #Perfection

"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish."
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#Genius #World #Newton

The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#Work #Uniforms #Construction

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.
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#Reading #Eye #Science

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

#Math #Moments #Century

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#Knows

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#Curves #Ordinary #Problem

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.