Lazare Carnot Quotes:
Ocupation: French Politician
Life: May 13, 1753 - August 2, 1823
Birthday: May 13
Death: August 2
... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.
topic: Beautiful, Circles, Ideas, Vague Ideas, Vicious Circles, Beautiful River
