Joseph-Louis Lagrange Quotes

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

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

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

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

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.

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.