Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it. - Ryan Lilly
It is to these two discoveries by that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. .... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre - Bradley
My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.{Commenting about 's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.} Jean-Baptiste Biot - Louis Pasteur