There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.
Alexander von HumboldtDie gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)
Alexander von HumboldtI am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
Alexander von HumboldtThis view of a living nature where man is nothing is both odd and sad. Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man; you feel you are carried into a different world from the one you were born into.
Alexander von HumboldtThis aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of man; we seem to be transported into a world different from that which gave us birth.
Alexander von HumboldtStichwörter: being
Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
Alexander von HumboldtStichwörter: harmony
I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social claims. Nature offers unceasingly the most novel and fascinating objects for learning. The only drawbacks to this solitude are the want of information on the progress of scientific discovery in Europe and the lack of all the advantages arising from an interchange of ideas.
Alexander von HumboldtStichwörter: solitude
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
Alexander von HumboldtStichwörter: history
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