Jacques Babinet

Jacques Babinet (March 5, 1794 – October 21, 1872) was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics.

• Ce qui est familier aux savants de profession a grand besoin d'être mis dans le domaine commun.
  • What is familiar to professional scientists highly needs to be placed in the public domain.
    • Études et lectures sur les sciences d'observation et leurs applications pratiques, by Jacques Babinet, published by Mallet-Bachelier (1858), [ p. x]. Quotes Jacques Babinet.

• It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none.
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