Alexander von Humboldt Quotes
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
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People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
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There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.
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Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
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At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
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Before being free, it is necessary to be just.
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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
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Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.
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Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.