Ancient Quote by William Whewell

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now…

— Eliphas Levi

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down…

— Adolf Hitler

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because…

— Bernard Baruch

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

— Karl Marx

“Within this Mine two Stones of old were found, Were this the Ancients called Holy Ground; Who knew their Value, Power and Extent, And…

— Michael van der Gucht

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it;…

— Thomas Browne

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

So you find a lot of things in Egypt in royal and high status tombs made out of gold because it's a precious object.…

— Josh Gates

Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it…

— Mike Harding

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin