Georges-Louis Leclerc

"What better way to establish his name than to tackle the most fundamental philosophical question man could ask: When was the world created? And how? ...Unlike all previous theorists, Buffon chose to i…"

"Buffon, the director of the Jardin du Roi... watched... the sun... Besides him.. stood... his latest experiment: four large wooden frames holding between them an array of over 150 mirrors. Screw threa…"

"Man alone consumes more flesh than all the other animals together devour; he is, then, the greatest destroyer; and this more from custom than necessity. Instead of using with moderation the blessings …"

"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."

"Buffon produced in the fifty years from 1749 an Histoire Naturelle... one of the signal products of eighteenth-century science. ...He attempted to see nature as a whole, produced a vast synthesis and …"

"rom the earliest periods of time alone has divided the empire of the world between him and Nature. ...e rather enjoys than possesses, and it is by constant and perpetual activity and vigilance that he…"