In Trying To Defend Everything He Defended

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.

If Soldiers Were To Begin To Think, Not One Of Them Would Remain In The Army.

Euler Calculated The Force Of The Wheels Necessary To Raise The Water In A Reservoir ... My Mill Was Carried Out Geometrically And Could Not Raise A Drop Of Water Fifty Yards From The Reservoir. Vanity Of Vanities! Vanity Of Geometry!

You Will Certainly Grant Me That Neither Antiquity Nor Whatever Nation Has Devised A More Repulsive And Blasphemous Absurdity Than That Of Eating Your God. This Is The Most Disgusting Dogma Of Christian Religion, The Greatest Insult To The Highest Being, The Climax Of Madness And Insanity.

The More I See Of Men, The Better I Like My Dog.