Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Quotes

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 Buffon

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• 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 Buffon
  • Nature
  • Absolute
  • Uniformity