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“The style is the man himself”
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“All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.”
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“Never think that God's delays are God's denials.”
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“Majestatis naturæ by ingenium (Genius equal to the majesty of nature.)
[Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base of a statue of Buffon placed at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris.]”
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[Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base of a statue of Buffon placed at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris.]”
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“Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées.
Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.”
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Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.”
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“The great workman of nature is time.”
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“Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.”
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“Nature's great workman is time.”
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“The noblest conquest of man is to have gained the friendship of the horse”
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“The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.”
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“Bien écrire c’est tout à la fois bien penser, bien sentir et bien rendre”
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