Adapted Quote by Noam Chomsky

“I mean, contrary to the contemporary version of it, classical liberalism (which remember was pre-capitalist, and in fact, anti-capitalist) focused on the right of…

— Noam Chomsky

... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not…

— Noam Chomsky

“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his…

— Noam Chomsky

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

Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s stunning new…

— Daniel Walker Howe

“This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.”

— Claude Louis Berthollet

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with…

— Bayard Taylor

“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

“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

“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