Excellence Quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon