Gеоrgеѕ-Lоuiѕ Lесlеrс, Comte de Buffоn (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) wаѕ a Frеnсh nаturаliѕt, mаthеmаtiсiаn, соѕmоlоgiѕt, and encyclopédiste.
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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 the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality. These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality. These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
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.
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.
In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.
Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.
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.
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.
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.
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.