Fertile Quotes

188 quotes by 172 authors

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. — Charles Babbage
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to… — David Bohm
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.… — Jerome Bruner
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all… — Albert Camus
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the… — George Washington
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;… — Edward Gargan
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time… — Theobald Smith
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all… — Victor Hugo
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow. — Bruce Lee
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. — Luis Bunuel
If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if they do get… — Robert O. Young
The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery. — Joseph Fourier
Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may… — Thomas Malthus
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally… — Charles Darwin
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy… — A. E. Douglass
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly… — Nikola Tesla

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