Lazare Carnot Professions : French Politician Born : May 13, 1753 Died : August 2, 1823 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Lazare Carnot In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance. Lazare Carnot suffering littles country When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine. Lazare Carnot machines body science ... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas. Lazare Carnot circles beautiful ideas The General Order is always: Lazare Carnot discipline military order Similar Authors Bruno Le Maire french-politician Antoine Pinay french-politician Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin french-politician Bertrand Delanoe french-politician Bertrand Barere french-politician Bernard Kouchner french-politician All Authors
