Jean Henri Fabre citáty
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Jean Henri Fabre
Datum narození:22. prosinec 1823
Datum úmrtí:11. říjen 1915
Citáty Jean Henri Fabre
„The mind is an activity, not a repository.“
— Jean Henri Fabre
The Passionate Observer
„What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.“
— Jean Henri Fabre
The Passionate Observer
„so slow is moral progress. True, we have the bicycle, the motor-car, the dirigible airship and other marvellous means of breaking our bones; but our morality is not one rung the higher for it all. One would even say that, the farther we proceed in our conquest of matter, the more our morality recedes. The most advanced of our inventions consists in bringing men down with grapeshot and explosives with the swiftness of the reaper mowing the corn.“
— Jean Henri Fabre
The Life of the Spider
„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.“
— Jean Henri Fabre
The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre
„A little science is something that they must have. I should like my nephews to know what air is, and water; why we breathe, and why wood burns; the nutritive elements essential to plant life, and the constituents of the soil. And it is no vague and imperfect knowledge from hearsay I would have them gain of these fundamental truths, on which depend agriculture and the industrial arts and our health itself; I would have them know these things thoroughly from their own observation and experience. Books here are insufficient, and can serve merely as aids to scientific experiment.“
— Jean Henri Fabre
The Wonder Book of Chemistry (1922)
