7 Quotes by Francois Arago

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

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

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

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

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

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.