"In every period of incompetent administration France has suffered—and Louis’s successors in the 1930s would have given him a good run—there almost always has been a small group of technocrats who’ve decided that since no one who was officially in power was going to take charge, then they would have to do it themselves."
David Bodanis

E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
(via David S. Saunders)
(Source: kindlequotes)
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