Agnes Arber Quote

A record of research should not resemble a casual pile of quarried stone; it should seem "not built, but born", as Vasari said in praise of a building.


The Mind and the Eye: A Study of the Biologist's Standpoint, Chapter V (p. 50)


A record of research should not resemble a casual pile of quarried stone; it should seem not built, but born, as Vasari said in praise of a building.

A record of research should not resemble a casual pile of quarried stone; it should seem not built, but born, as Vasari said in praise of a building.

A record of research should not resemble a casual pile of quarried stone; it should seem not built, but born, as Vasari said in praise of a building.

A record of research should not resemble a casual pile of quarried stone; it should seem not built, but born, as Vasari said in praise of a building.