Admiration Quote by Thomas Jefferson

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

— Charles Darwin

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

— Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“There was a certain scientific practicability even in his love-making, and it here came out excellently. ”

— Thomas Hardy

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he…

— China Miéville

“A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.”

— Anthony Doerr

“But, could he truly call himself a scientist if he were to pass up such a unique opportunity?”

— Christa Faust

“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the…

— Maria Montessori

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain…

— Louis de Broglie

“ Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great…

— Humphry Davy

“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.”

— Walker Percy