Buffon Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place… — Thomas Jefferson
• Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably… — James Boswell
• We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
• There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
• Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style. — Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

Who Wrote These Buffon Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Buffon Quotes as follows:

• 1 Buffon Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Buffon Quote by James Boswell
• 1 Buffon Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
• 1 Buffon Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1 Buffon Quote by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
• 1 Buffon Quote by Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm