"As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these……" — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
"As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning of the Universe, in which our globe, like a speck of abandoned matter, escapes our vision and is no longer an object worthy of our regard. In order to fix our vision, it is necessary to take it such as it is, to observe well all parts of it, and by indications infer from the present to the past."
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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26 Quotes by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake,…
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Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it,…
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated,…
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We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
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Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even…
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In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the…
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There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are,…
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An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing.…
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order…
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One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal…
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The great workman of nature is time.
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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration…
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