“The master's eye is the best fertilizer.”
Pliny The Elder
“If you think of in-vitro fertilization in stages, from stimulating egg production, to retrieving eggs, to fertilizing them and transferring them, they're really good at stimulating and retrieving them, and fertilization rates are high. The rate-limiting step is implantation into the uterus. This is one mechanism where you might improve that.”
Laura Schieve
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds”
David Hume
“I really adore people who can look at bullshit and see fertilizer.”
Bobby W. Miller
“The land was not the arctic waste commonly envisioned, but a fertile paradise; Puget Sound, said one rhapsodic report, was 'the Mediterranean of the Northwest”
David Lavender
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
Jerome Bruner
“the political, social and economic inequalities that provide a fertile breeding ground for exploitation by extremists.”
Mircea Geoana