Alexander von Humboldt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Die gefÃ¤hrlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#World #Dangerous #Worldview
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Ignorance #Animal #Luxury
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

#Lying #Rocks #Issues
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Philosophy #Imagination #Littles
Before being free, it is necessary to be just
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Being Free
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Powerful #Race #Intellectual
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Men #People #Curiosity
Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Nature #Passion #Heart
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Passion #Successful #Achievement
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

#Nature #Fate #Blow
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Numbers #Mind #Important
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

#Space #Wealth #Cocoa
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Vanity #Self #Expression
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Animal #People #Vices

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