“We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!” Quote by Nicolas Sarkozy
“I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.” PeopleMistakeViolenceSeeingPoliceSafetyObjectivesWorriedProtestThugUnleashing Author:Nicolas Sarkozy
“France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.” CountryLevelsBenefitsProtectionObligationFranceWelfareHigh LevelIncumbents Author:Nicolas Sarkozy
“Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.” DemandEuropeIncreaseDuesFranceBudgetsDeficitBudget Deficit Author:Nicolas Sarkozy
“Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.” MayDoeSeemsThreeDimensionsFourthFifthThree Dimensions Author:John Wallis
“Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?” ShouldEnoughForceAirWeightSurpriseInclinationVesselColumnsBeing ThereEquilibriumMercury Author:Evangelista Torricelli
“Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.” FirstsMayStillsRomanceFormPrinciplesAssumingHypothesisSpeculationIngenious Author:Roger Cotes
“But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.” SometimesFoundGivenEasyDifficultEducationMathematicsMathCertaintyMathematicalStatisticsQuantityCalculusDerivativesIntegral CalculusDifferential Calculus Author:Johann Bernoulli
“Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.” ThinkingGivingOpinionPathAccountsLaysAstronomyWanderGreekWorthwhileUncertainFloatingNeglectedCometsAiryVaporMeteorsVapour Author:Edmond Halley
“Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.” HardProblemEarthDifficultSunDistanceLabourScarce Author:Edmond Halley