Joseph Louis Lagrange Quote

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.


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


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.

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.

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.

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.