Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Quote

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.


'De la Reproduction en Générale et particuliére', Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, Avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi (1749), Vol. 2, 18. Trans. Phillip R. Sloan


Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences...

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences...

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences...

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences...