The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
Interpretation
Introducing useful plants improves a country's agriculture and economy.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of agriculture and biodiversity in a nation's development. By adding useful plants to a countryβs culture, it not only enhances the agricultural variety but also supports food security and the economy, ultimately benefiting society as a whole.
In practice
In a speech about sustainability, one could reference this quote to highlight the importance of agricultural innovation.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
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A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
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