Gеоrgеѕ-Lоuiѕ Lесlеrс, Comte de Buffоn (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) wаѕ a Frеnсh nаturаliѕt, mаthеmаtiсiаn, соѕmоlоgiѕt, and encyclopédiste.
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Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.
The style is the man himself. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The style is the man himself.
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.
But all which is susceptible of comparison, everything that we can perceive by different aspects, all that we can consider relatively, can always be judged according to our knowledge. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
But all which is susceptible of comparison, everything that we can perceive by different aspects, all that we can consider relatively, can always be judged according to our knowledge.
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.
Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées. Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées. Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being.
God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared.
The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.
