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Former Prime Minister of the French Republic

François Arago was a prominent French politician, astronomer, and mathematician. Born on February 26, 1786, and died on October 2, 1853, he was active during the French Revolution and later served as a counselor to Napoleon I. Arago made significant contributions to astronomy, particularly in his study of the dark spots on the moon's surface.

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“I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

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

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“Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant