A Quote by Carl Linnaeus

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Carl Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus
Swedish - Botanist
May 23, 1707 - January 10, 1778

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Carolus Linnaeus

Nature does not make leaps.

Gottfried Leibniz

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Dorothy Thompson

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Robert Smithson

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

George Bernard Shaw

What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual system, system of motor organisation, and others - including, in fact, the digestive system.

Noam Chomsky

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

Francis Ford Coppola

In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Michel de Montaigne

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

Gottfried Leibniz

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.