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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

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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…
Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most…
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full…
We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty…
In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since…
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only…
An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species…
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give…
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the…
The great workman of nature is time.
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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