Admiration Quote by Robert G. Ingersoll

“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt . We are all his family.”

— Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond

“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir…

— Sebastian Faulks

“[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus , so you tell me.”

— John Scalzi

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He wanted to inspire the masses and reinvigorate their passion for science, conquest, and the promise of technology.”

— Ashlee Vance

“Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.”

— Kevin N. Fair

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner