Teneriffe Quotes
- We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote… — Walter Bagehot
- [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
- With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who… — Charles Caleb Colton