Joseph-Louis Lagrange Quotes

• 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

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• If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Mathematics, Should, Fortune

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• 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

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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 Lagrange

  Genius, World, Newton

  "Introduction to Astronomy" by F. R. Moulton, New York, (p. 199), 1906.

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• I do not know.
  [summarising his life's work]

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Knows

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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.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Work, Math, Uniforms

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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.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Reading, Eye, Science

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• The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Curves, Ordinary, Problem

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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.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Death, Cutting, Science

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