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Youthful fancy lends to the rock, the tree, the flower, an animating genius, and in the thunder hears the voice of God. Then comes earnest science stripping Nature of that inspiring charm, and substituting the unvarying law of blind necessity.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

It has long been agreed in good society, that to talk about the weather is not good ton, that no topic can be so tiresome, and that it ought, therefore, to be left to sailors and bashful lovers.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

He who places himself in direct opposition to sound human understanding, on the domain of the demonstrable, subjects himself to the curse of ridicule which nothing can withstand.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

Inexplicable is the nature of Beauty. Only in the Feeling does the susceptible soul become conscious of it; and to the logically arranging, scientifically connecting, and theoretically deducing Understanding, it remains ever a foreign, closed territory.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

The pure heart speaks out unhesitatingly what the acutest intellect never finds.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

Beauty is incapable of any explanatory science. The decisions in which we recognize it, the criticisms of Taste, are not to be built upon inductive reasonings.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

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Born: April 5, 1804

Died: June 23, 1881 (aged 77)

Bio: Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow.

Known for:

Principles of scientific botany

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