14 Quotes by Jean le Rond d'Alembert

The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

In effect, what is a courtier? He is a man whom the misfortune of kings and people has placed betwixt the sovereign and truth to conceal it from his eyes.