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«Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | Keywords: centipede, come by, fourteen, insect, The name
«If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.»
Author: Jacques Cousteau (Explorer) | About: Earth, Humanity | Keywords: disappear, globe, greed, insect, on the way, replaced, The Globe
«Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....»
Author: Sohrab Sepehri | About: Life | Keywords: dimension, experienced, insect, migrate, migrates, migrating
«We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.»
Author: Charles Darwin (Author, Naturalist) | About: Universe | Keywords: by laws, governed, insect, nay, planets, satellite, satellites, special act, suns, systems, the smallest, universes
«TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (_Mendax interminabilis_).»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: African, Africans, bite, commonly, efficacious, insect, insomnia, novelist, patients, regarded, remedy, The American, the novelist, tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze
«Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: hindmost, hither, hither and thither, insect, inward, network, paths, sends, stimuli, stimulus, the play, thither
«Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: bear, bear on, bear up, closest, eye, get laid, her, insect, inspection, invites, ITS, lay, laying on, leaf, leafing, level, leveled, leveling, plain, plainer, plainest, She, smallest, view
«A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: flying horse, insect, sir, stately, sting, wince, winced
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