"The metaphor is probably the most fertile power……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of… — Charles Babbage
• This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed… — David Bohm
• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins… — Jerome Bruner
• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive… — Albert Camus
• [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands… — George Washington
• Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a… — Unknown Author
• It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and… — Louis Agassiz
• Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the… — Henry David Thoreau
• In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds.… — Theobald Smith
• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An… — Victor Hugo

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