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Alfred Bougeard
(1815 - 1880)
French writer whose maxims were published in Pailles et Poutres (1877). His other books include Observations (1856), Les Moralistes Oubliés (1858), Danton (1879), and Les hommes de la Révolution française (1841). He was editor of Charivari and Journal Amusant.
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Science Quotes by Alfred Bougeard (2 quotes)
Le génie crée, le talent reproduit.
Genius creates, talent repeats.
Genius creates, talent repeats.
— Alfred Bougeard
In Pailles et Poutres (1877), collected in La Pensées Française: Anthologie des Auteurs de Maximes du XVie Siècle a nos Jours (1921), 295. Alternative translations could be "talent reproduces" or "talent copies."
The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.
— Alfred Bougeard
Collected in J. de Finod (ed., trans.) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1880), 66, printed citation showing “Alfred Bougeart”. Webmaster has not yet found the primary source for this quote, but has found books with the author name printed on the title page as sometimes Bougeart, others as Bougeard, but references therein to "other books by" have some of the same titles in common. If you know the primary source of this quote, please contact Webmaster.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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