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Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.<br>[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.] Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.<br>[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

-Jean-Henri Fabre

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The mind is an activity, not a repository.

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What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.

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People declare as much, without, apparently, looking into the matter very closely. They seem able to dispense with the conscientious observer's scruples, when inflating their bladder of theory.

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The custom of eating the lover after consummination of the nuptials, of making a meal of the exhausted pigmy, who is henceforth good for nothing, is not so difficult to understand, since insects can hardly be accused of sentimentality; but to devour him during the act surpasses anythi . . . Read more

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La clarté est la souveraine politesse de qui manie une plume.(Clarity is the sovereign politeness of the one who wields a pen.)

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You speak to me, in your own fashion, of a strange psychology which is able to reconcile the wonders of a master craftsmanship with aberrations due to unfathomable stupidity.

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Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown.

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