Humboldt Quote by Andrea Wulf

“Lucretius wrote in The Nature of Things:        Especially since this world is the product of Nature,        the happenstance        Of the seeds of things colliding…

— Marcelo Gleiser

“Eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher, Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote: Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always…

— Verusha Singh

“Ellie I have never in life... ever sweetheart...experienced these feelings that i have for you. You walk into a room and i have to…

— Kelly Elliott

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or…

— Nathaniel Kahn

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

— Alan Sugar

You can take me and then you can take a blond white man with blue eyes, and you could say, "Fundamentally, they're different." And…

— Amma Asante

“The things this man made me feel just by speaking was unreal. At times I wanted to weep from the sheer sensation of never…

— Madeline Sheehan

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now,…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.”

— José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero

“[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll