""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.""

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Source : "Introduction to Astronomy" by F. R. Moulton, New York, (p. 199), 1906.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

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“It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.”
“I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.”

Source : "Facebook author Mezrich: Mark Zuckerberg should love 'The Social Network'". Interview with Steven Zeitchik and Amy Kaufman, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 22, 2010.
“I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.”
“Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'”
“When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.”
“America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.”
“The Civilizedâ€¦ murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.”
“To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.”

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