The 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 BuffonRead

Naturalist · Unknown · 1707 – 1788
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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées._x000D_ _x000D_ Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.
Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.
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