“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts:… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle — Claudio Ranieri Copy Share Image
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style. — Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
