"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 patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en… — Leo Errera 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: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which we hide… — Leo Errera 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 patience dans… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity. — Leo Errera 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: a lively… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
Pour réussir dans la science, il faut douter; pour réussir dans la vie, il faut être sûr. To succeed in science, one must doubt;… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
La vérité est sur une courbe dont notre ésprit suit éternellement l'asymptote. Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit. — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
