Jean Henri Fabre Quote

How many properties were there of which the compass knew nothing, how many cunning laws lay contained in embryo within an equation, the mysterious nut which must be artistically cracked to extract the rich kernel, the theorem!


Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Fly, Chapter XIII (p. 303), Dodd, Mead & Co. 1925


How many properties were there of which the compass knew nothing, how many cunning laws lay contained in embryo within an equation, the mysterious...

How many properties were there of which the compass knew nothing, how many cunning laws lay contained in embryo within an equation, the mysterious...

How many properties were there of which the compass knew nothing, how many cunning laws lay contained in embryo within an equation, the mysterious...

How many properties were there of which the compass knew nothing, how many cunning laws lay contained in embryo within an equation, the mysterious...