Félix Archimède Pouchet Quotes

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The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.

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The earth is only an immense cemetery where each generation acquires life at the expense of the debris of that which has just expired; the particles of our corpses form new materials for the beings which will follow us.

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When man begins the study of the sciences, it is with profound astonishment that he recognizes that the marvels which they reveal to him far surpass the most audacious fictions of antiquity.

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The torch of anatomy has shed a flood of light upon the organization of the inferior animals, and the microscope, by allowing us to pry into the most inaccessible nooks of it, has unfolded before our eyes a horizon as vast as it was unexpected.

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Among insects, there are architects, masons, upholsterers, paper-makers, joiners, pasteboard-makers, and hydraulic-engineers. Others dislike work, and are veritable pirates, always engaged in war and pillage.

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It is in the midst of lofty mountains that Nature develops her most magnificent scenes. Their winding-sheets of eternal snow, their diadems of ice, and their burning volcanoes, by turns strike and astonish the traveller.

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To the tunic of leaves by which plants are covered is due all the magnificence of creation. The flowers, indeed, form a charming ornament which attracts and seduces the eye, but they remain unnoticed in the grand scenes of Nature, when she unrolls before us her most splendid landscapes, her sombre forests, or her immense extended plains of verdure.

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Our imagination... is equally confounded by what is infinitely great or infinitely small.

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Space being infinite, and our minds finite, they can only take in some small portions of it, and' yet, though these are very limited compared to the field of immensity, they are enough to confound the human comprehension.

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The phenomena of creation astound us, whether uplifting our look we scrutinize the mechanism of the heavens, or cast our eyes upon the tiniest creatures of this lower realm.

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Born in one shape the insect dies in another, and the metamorphoses which it undergoes are the most important act of its life, and the most extraordinary phenomenon in physiology.

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Whoever aspires to the title of a philosopher has, in the present day, a double mission to perform - to discover and to popularize; he should labour on the one hand for the advancement, on the other for the diffusion, of science.

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When we read the works of naturalists, and see them penetrating so deeply into the most hidden secrets of the anatomy and manners of beings, the mere existence of which the eye could not lead us to suspect, we are apt to

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It [creation] stands revealed in the azure dome of heaven, where glows a perfect dust of stars, and in the living atom which hides from us the marvels of its organization.

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Although the vulgar cannot fathom all the mysteries of the heavens, their imagination receives some compensation in the strange fancies which comets engender, as they have always enjoyed the privilege of creating ecstasy.

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