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 every…

- Alexander Von Humboldt

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of t…

- Alexander Von Humboldt

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

- Alexander Von Humboldt

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusi…

- Alexander Von Humboldt

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

- Alexander Von Humboldt

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance a…

- Alexander Von Humboldt

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

- Alexander Von Humboldt

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of impo…

- Alexander Von Humboldt

It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wis…

- Alexander Von Humboldt