He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
Robert G. IngersollTags: science shakespeare admiration drama honor praise william-shakespeare recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.
Clarence DarrowTags: liberty freethinker honor praise recognition soldier valiant george-everett-macdonald
[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall]
[He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.
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Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.
Albert SchweitzerTags: history scholarship praise jesus-myth historical-jesus historicity biblical-criticism historicity-of-jesus bruno-bauer criticism-of-the-gospel-history life-of-jesus
Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceTags: science admiration scientists praise compliment master mathematician euler leonhard-euler
{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier's execution during the French Revolution}
Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Jean RostandTags: science time admiration achievement praise scientist louis-pasteur inconceivable
The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader please, Laplace was neither Lagrange nor Euler, as every student is made to feel. The second is power and symmetry, the third power and simplicity; the first is power without either symmetry or simplicity. But, nevertheless, Laplace never attempted investigation of a subject without leaving upon it the marks of difficulties conquered: sometimes clumsily, sometimes indirectly, always without minuteness of design or arrangement of detail; but still, his end is obtained and the difficulty is conquered.
Augustus de MorganTags: science truth power beauty genius admiration investigation difficulty simplicity scientists praise design obstacles results mathematics symmetry detail instrument conquer clumsy indirect lagrange laplace pierre-simon-laplace euler leonhard-euler joseph-louis-lagrange
The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.
Augustus de MorganTags: science history admiration expectation praise astronomy recognition attention labour accurate incomplete nineteenth-century chief astronomical-society baily founder francis-baily
The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange, Laplace, and Gauss, who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. Lagrange is perfect both in form and matter, he is careful to explain his procedure, and though his arguments are general they are easy to follow. Laplace on the other hand explains nothing, is indifferent to style, and, if satisfied that his results are correct, is content to leave them either with no proof or with a faulty one. Gauss is as exact and elegant as Lagrange, but even more difficult to follow than Laplace, for he removes every trace of the analysis by which he reached his results, and studies to give a proof which while rigorous shall be as concise and synthetical as possible.
W.W. Rouse BallTags: science style difficulty elegance scientists argument praise perfection proof interesting masters lagrange gauss laplace pierre-simon-laplace joseph-louis-lagrange carl-friedrich-gauss modern-analysis
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