"The greatest marvel is not in the individual.……" — 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 Nature would seem quite inconceivable. This power of producing its likeness that resides in animals and plants, this form of unity, always subsisting and appearing eternal, this procreative virtue which is perpetually expressed without ever being destroyed, is for us a mystery which, it seems, we will never be able to fathom."
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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