"The human mind cannot create anything. It produces……" — 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 production."
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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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More Acquisition Quotes
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the…
— Jane Austen
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen…
— John Cage
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.
— Robert Bunsen
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances -…
— Peter Drucker
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and…
— J. William Fulbright
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
— William James
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as…
— William James
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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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