“My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.” DesireFatherNaturalPleasureAnimalStudyInspireBirdPassagesNatural HistoryGreatest PleasuresLearning To ReadDesire For KnowledgeBuffon Author:Andre-Marie Ampere
“It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others.” ShouldOrderNaturalEffortElementsCompareChemistryArtificialSuccessionClassificationNatural Order Author:Andre-Marie Ampere