All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.
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 BuffonStyle supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon