"It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt,……" — Charles Lyell

"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 be already man.'"

— Charles Lyell

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37 Quotes by Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of…
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of…
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable…
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in…
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals…
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,…
So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence…
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is…
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…

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More Humboldt Quotes

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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For… — Louis Agassiz
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble… — Charles Darwin
I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better… — Steve Wilkos
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South… — Richard Dawkins
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade… — Thomas Jefferson

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