Admiration Quote by Charles Darwin Download Open image “[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.” — Charles Darwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admiration Alexander-humboldt Alexander-von-humboldt Honor Humboldt Praise Science Traveller
“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all… — Simón Bolívar Copy Share Image
“Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt . We are all his family.” — Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. — Edmund Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare union of poetry with science which he so strongly displays when writing on tropical scenery, with all this falls far short of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received. — Jupp Heynckes Copy Share Image
I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for and admiration of literature, and that, the enthusiasm and admiration, can revitalize the reader’s love for the art form. I’m grateful for How Literature Saved My Life because the book has made me think again –… — Andre Alexis Copy Share
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There must be a reason to smile, Miss François. Will you supply one?" It was Daisy's turn to stare. For a long moment they… — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image