"An Individual, whatever species it might be, is……" — 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 only creatures of Nature, perpetual creatures, as old and as permanent as it. In order to judge it better, we no longer consider the species as a collection or as a series of similar individuals, but as a whole independent of number, independent of time, a whole always living, always the same, a whole which has been counted as one in the works of creation, and which, as a consequence, makes only a unity in Nature."
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26 Quotes by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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