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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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We can only penetrate the rind of the 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The great workman of nature is time.
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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…
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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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…
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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our…
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it…
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The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident…
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The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is…
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Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the…
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