Accounts Quote by Georges Cuvier

“The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet…

— Georges Cuvier

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt

“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.”

— Edward O. Wilson

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an infinitesimal audience…

— Max Delbruck

“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of…

— George Gissing

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

— Alexander Pope

The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding…

— Herman Melville

“Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines. Gone…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the…

— Washington Irving