Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Quote

All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity...that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.


Histoire Naturelle des Minéraux (1783–88), Vol. 3


All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity...that in nature ...

All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity...that in nature ...

All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity...that in nature ...

All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity...that in nature ...