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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.
— Claude Louis Berthollet
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.
— Clay Aiken
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.
— Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that.
— Jason McAteer
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.
— Jose Cipriano De La Luz Y Caballero
Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
— Dale Peck
Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
— Alexander Von Humboldt
With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Before being free, it is necessary to be just
— Alexander Von Humboldt
M glad that you're out there somewhere reading this, eventually reading this, it makes me feel better.
— Rainbow Rowell
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
— Thomas Jefferson
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.
— Fran Lebowitz
The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.
— Simon Bolivar
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
— Alain De Botton
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
— Helen Dunmore
Still, she has an aura of mystery that stops her from being teased or singled out for typical high school unpleasantness. Her mother is a Sinclair.
— E. Lockhart
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?
— Pat Buchanan
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
— Immanuel Kant
What's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
— Robert Dallek
He felt Anna's hand slip into his and he grasped it hard. It was reassuring, soft, comforting. Everything he needed in that moment.
— Samantha Chase
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
— Antonio Porchia