Quotes by
Jean d’ Alembert |
Jean le Rond d'Alembert, 1717-1783 , French mathematician & philosopher
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. | 3 quotes | 993 visits |
Quotations
| • | Modesty is sometimes hypocritical, and simplicity never is. |
| • | Woe to any novel that the reader is in no hurry to complete. |
| • | The mind that invents is always dissatisfied with its progress, because it sees beyond. |