"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
― Denis Diderot
Topic(s): Nature
― Denis Diderot
More From Denis Diderot
- "The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
- "There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."
- "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
More In Nature
- "Custom is second nature."― Augustine of Hippo
- "All novels are about crime. You’d be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don’t see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That’s the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world."― Carl Hiaasen
- "To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."― Jane Austen