French natural historian (1707-1788)
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He ran the King's Garden in Paris and wrote thirty-six volumes trying to catalog everything nature had made, then the theology committee forced him to take it back because the rocks were older than Genesis allowed.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist born 7 September 1707. He served as intendant at the Jardin du Roi — the King's Garden, now the Jardin des Plantes — and from that post published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime, with more appearing in the two decades after his death on 16 April 1788. He was among the first naturalists to recognize ecological succession, and his theories on geological history and animal evolution pressed against the biblical creation story hard enough that the University of Par…
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Man alone consumes more flesh than all the other animals together devour; he is, then, the greatest destroyer; and this more from custom than necessity.
[F]rom the earliest periods of time [man] alone has divided the empire of the world between him and Nature.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
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