God Is Always With The Strongest Battalions.

To Your Care And Recommendation Am I Indebted For Having Replaced A Half-blind Mathematician With A Mathematician With Both Eyes, Which Will Especially Please The Anatomical Members Of My Academy.

Christianity - An Old Metaphysical Romance, Filled With Marvels, Contradictions, And Absurdity, Born In The Ardent Imagination Of Orientals, Has Spread Into Our Europe. Enthusiasts Have Purveyed It, Careerists Have Pretended To Accept It, Imbeciles Have Believed It.

I Have No Fault To Find With Those Who Teach Geometry. That Science Is The Only One Which Has Not Produced Sects; It Is Founded On Analysis And On Synthesis And On The Calculus; It Does Not Occupy Itself With The Probable Truth; Moreover It Has The Same Method In Every Country.

A Man With His Heart In His Profession Imagines And Finds Resources Where The Worthless And Lazy Despair.

If I Wished To Punish A Province, I Would Have It Governed By Philosophers.