Charles Bossut Quote

Experience shows, that there is more danger in humbling ourselves too much, than ridiculousness in proclaiming our own merits.


A General History of Mathematics from the Earliest Times to the Middle, of the Eighteenth Century, Author's Preface (p. xx), Printed for J. Johnson. 1803


Experience shows, that there is more danger in humbling ourselves too much, than ridiculousness in proclaiming our own merits.

Experience shows, that there is more danger in humbling ourselves too much, than ridiculousness in proclaiming our own merits.

Experience shows, that there is more danger in humbling ourselves too much, than ridiculousness in proclaiming our own merits.

Experience shows, that there is more danger in humbling ourselves too much, than ridiculousness in proclaiming our own merits.