Fertile

Famous quotes containing the word fertile:

“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (b. 1915)

“I envy not only their talents
And fertile lack of balance
But the appearance of choice
In their sad and fatal voice.”
—Roy Fuller (b. 1912)

“Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)