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 BuffonThe 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, Comte de BuffonThe cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonMan thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon