Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Quotes

Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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• Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.

  

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  • Ignorance
  • Produce
  • Species