Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quote

It was the business of the Sorbonne to discuss; of the Pope to decide; and of the mathematician to go to heaven in a perpendicular line.


In: Dugald Stewart, The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart (Volume 4)


It was the business of the Sorbonne to discuss; of the Pope to decide; and of the mathematician to go to heaven in a perpendicular line.

It was the business of the Sorbonne to discuss; of the Pope to decide; and of the mathematician to go to heaven in a perpendicular line.

It was the business of the Sorbonne to discuss; of the Pope to decide; and of the mathematician to go to heaven in a perpendicular line.

It was the business of the Sorbonne to discuss; of the Pope to decide; and of the mathematician to go to heaven in a perpendicular line.