Joseph-Louis Lagrange quotes
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“If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.”
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“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.”
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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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“"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 LagrangeSource : "Introduction to Astronomy" by F. R. Moulton, New York, (p. 199), 1906.
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“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.”
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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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“It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.”
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“I do not know. [summarising his life's work]”
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“The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.”
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
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“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
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“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”
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“Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.”
Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.
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