Fertile Quotes

188 Fertile quotes by 170 unique 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;… — Unknown Author
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… — Unknown Author
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
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich… — Paul Brooks
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,… — Robert Muller
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make… — Giuseppe Mazzini
It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking… — Neil Young

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