Fertile Quotes
188 quotes by 172 authors
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
— Charles Babbage
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
— Bruce Lee
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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
— Luis Bunuel
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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
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The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.
— Joseph Fourier
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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
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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
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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
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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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