Nicolas de Condorcet Quote

If a scholar poses himself a new problem, he can attack it fortified by the pooled resources of all his predecessors.


In: Maurice Daumas, Scientific Instruments of the 17thth and 18 Centuries and Their Makers, Eulogy for J. de Vaucanson before the Academie of Sciences (p. 119)


If a scholar poses himself a new problem, he can attack it fortified by the pooled resources of all his predecessors.

If a scholar poses himself a new problem, he can attack it fortified by the pooled resources of all his predecessors.

If a scholar poses himself a new problem, he can attack it fortified by the pooled resources of all his predecessors.

If a scholar poses himself a new problem, he can attack it fortified by the pooled resources of all his predecessors.