Noel-Antoine Pluche Quotes

France, Priest
November 13, 1688 – November, 19, 1761.

Noël-Antoine Pluche known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his Spectacle de la nature, a most popular work of natural history.

It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

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