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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

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

Knows Science Knowledge Destiny Discovery Scientist Publish

Author:Francois Arago

“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.”

Want Mind Eye Science Certain Powerful Highest Discovery Importance Occasions Most Powerful Telescopes

Book:Biographies of distinguished scientific men

Source: Biographies of distinguished scientific men

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

Long Science Progress Accounts Absolutes Brilliant Repose Intervals Experimental Science

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

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

“The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses.”

Together Science Passion Names Enjoy Pleasure Numbers Careers Hero Taste Creating Accounts Investing Delight Deeds Pursuit Preserves Lofty Fables Single Person Marvellous

Author:Francois Arago

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

Science Interest Ought Limits Equal Degrees Mathematician Probability Confined Statesmen Calculus

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

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

“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

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

Facts Eye Science Genius Relation Privilege Perceive Isolated Vulgar

Book:Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt