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chained_bear commented on the word aquila non capit muscos
"Consistent with his criticism of the Linnaean system, Buffon disdained microscopic studies. He obviously believed in the Latin motto aquila non capit muscos (eagles don't catch flies), saying that only lesser men should occupy themselves with little things."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 155
December 28, 2016