Humboldt Quotes
- You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the… — Louis Agassiz
- It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must… — Charles Lyell
- [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No… — Charles Darwin
- I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had… — Steve Wilkos
- During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time… — Hermann von Helmholtz
- Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands. — Richard Dawkins
- 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 their… — Thomas Jefferson