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Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
(15 Aug 1769 - 5 May 1821)
French emperor.
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Science Quotes by Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte (4 quotes)
To Laplace, on receiving a copy of the Mécanique Céleste:
The first six months ,which I can spare will be employed in reading it.
The first six months ,which I can spare will be employed in reading it.
— Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
Correspondance de Napoléon ler, 27 vendémiaire an VIII [19 October 1799] no. 4384 (1861), Vol. 6, I. Trans. Charles Coulston Gillispie, Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science (1997), 176.
Doctor, no medicine.—We are machines made to live—organized expressly for that purpose.—Such is our nature.—Do not counteract the living principle.—Leave it at liberty to defend itself, and it will do better than your drugs.
— Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
As given in Tryon Edwards (ed.), A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), 339.
The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State.
— Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
Correspondance de Napoléon, t. 24 (1868), 112. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath's Quotation-book (1914), 42.
What sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
— Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
In Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote (1992), 172, but without definitive source. Webmaster has not found any 19th-century book with such a quotation. Contact webmaster if you can help identify if this is a valid quote or merely a joke.
Quotes by others about Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte (1)
If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
Lo! (1931, 1941), 8.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
