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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 (3)
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.
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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.
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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.
