Jean le Rond d'Alembert



Jean le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.

Quotes

 * Rien n'est plus incontestable que l'existence de nos sensations; ...
 * Nothing is more incontestable than the existence of our sensations; ...
 * in the Discours préliminaire de l’Encyclopédie.

Quotes about Jean le Rond d'Alembert

 * D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. … he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. … Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong...