Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Quotes
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of…
All
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Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of…
All
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and…
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We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
Earth
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Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries…
Amount
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In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature only…
Approach
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There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition.…
Abstract
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An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only…
Always Living
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a…
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One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.
Animal
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The great workman of nature is time.
Great
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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature…
Able
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The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and…
All
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The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
Accepting
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As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning…
Abandoned
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For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by…
Absolutely
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Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a…
Act
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The style is the man himself.
Inspirational
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All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there…
Absolute
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Style is the essence of man
Essence
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