Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Quotes

• Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Patience, Perseverance, Genius

  "New Cyclopædia of Illustrations". Book by Elon Foster, 1870.

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• Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Men, Thinking, Masters

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• The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Gato, Animal, Humanidad

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• Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Business, Genius, Extremes

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• 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.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Meditation, Mind, Experience

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• Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a thing, because this thing would be everything. Nature is not a creature, because this creature would be God. But one can consider it as an immense vital power, which encompasses all, which animates all, and which, subordinated to the power of the first Being, has begun to act only by his order, and still acts only by his concourse or consent ... Time, space and matter are its means, the universe its object, motion and life its goal.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  God, Nature, Mean

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• 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 who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Animal, Men, Vanity

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• Style is the essence of man

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Men, Essence, Style

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• To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Escribir, Pensar, Alma

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• Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Inspirational, Patience, Design

  See Thomas Carlyle 19; Edison 2; Jane Ellice Hopkins 1

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• 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, Conde de Buffon

  Real, Eye, Discovery

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• There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Love (Amor)

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• Escribir bien es a la vez pensar bien, sentir bien y expresarse bien; es tener ingenio, alma y gusto, todo junto.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Escribir, pensar, expresarse

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• El tiempo es el gran obrero de la Naturaleza.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Tiempo, Naturaleza, Ciencia

  "Natural History, General and Particular".

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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, Conde de Buffon

  Libro, Conocimiento, Ciencia

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Writing, Speak, Wells

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• 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, Conde de Buffon

  Europe, Sea, America

  Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon (1817). “A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc”, p.128

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• We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Science, Earth, Geology

  Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon (1817). “A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc”, p.6

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• 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, Conde de Buffon

  Men, Hands, Interesting

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by means of comparison. That which is absolutely incomparable is wholly incomprehensible. God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared. 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, Conde de Buffon

  God, Knowledge, Mean

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• Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées.
  Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Thinking, Order, Facts

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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 to the roughest mineral.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Naturaleza, Ciencia, Animal

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• The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature would seem quite inconceivable. This power of producing its likeness that resides in animals and plants, this form of unity, always subsisting and appearing eternal, this procreative virtue which is perpetually expressed without ever being destroyed, is for us a mystery which, it seems, we will never be able to fathom.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Naturaleza, Ciencia, Animal

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• Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Real, Animal, Common

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• An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only creatures of Nature, perpetual creatures, as old and as permanent as it. In order to judge it better, we no longer consider the species as a collection or as a series of similar individuals, but as a whole independent of number, independent of time, a whole always living, always the same, a whole which has been counted as one in the works of creation, and which, as a consequence, makes only a unity in Nature.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Nature, Independent, Science

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