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WRITERS > essayist, courtier > Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The sciences and...
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The sciences and arts are not cast in a mold, but formed and shaped little by little, by repeated handling and polishing, as bears lick their cubs into shape at leisure.
Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (Feb 28 1553-1592), French essayist, courtier; His Essais (Essays) established a new literary form, and often used quotations from classical writers.