Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkDiscover Alexander von Humboldt’s Bold Wisdom – Motivation for Doubt and Discovery
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"Bolder than exploring the unknown may be doubting the known."
Alexander von Humboldt
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAlexander von Humboldt on Freedom and Diversity: How State Interference Destroys Society
"The true purpose of man, not that which is dictated by changing inclinations, but that which is dictated by eternal and unchanging reason, is the highest and most proportionate development of his powers into a whole. Freedom is the first and indispensable condition for this development. (...) It is precisely the diversity that arises from the union of many that is the highest good that society offers, and this diversity is certainly always lost to the extent that the state interferes. It is no longer actually the members of a nation who live together in community, but individual subjects who enter into a relationship with the state, i.e., with the spirit that prevails in its government, and indeed into a relationship in which the superior power of the state already inhibits the free play of forces. Uniform causes have uniform effects. The more the state intervenes, the more similar not only everything that acts becomes, but also everything that is acted upon. (...) But anyone who reasons in this way for others is, not without reason, suspected of misunderstanding humanity and wanting to turn people into machines."
Alexander von Humboldt
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAlexander von Humboldt Quotes: Courage and Restraint in Science – Inspiring Wisdom
"I have known, too, for a long time, that we have no arguments for the Copernican system, but I shall never dare to be the first to attack it. Don’t msh into the wasp’s nest.
You will but bring upon yourself the scorn of the thoughtless multitude. If once a famous astronomer arises against the present conception, I will communicate, too, my observations; but to come forth as the first against opinions which the world has become fond of – I don’t feel the courage"
Alexander von Humboldt
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAlexander von Humboldt Quote on Cruelty to Animals
"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 and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury."
Alexander von Humboldt
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkPetroleum and Volcanic Forces – Quote by Alexander von Humboldt
"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."
Alexander von Humboldt
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote on Nature and Freedom by 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
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAlexander von Humboldt on Science and Mathematics
"One forgets that the sciences have an intrinsic purpose and loses sight of the truly literary interest, the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Mathematics loses none of its dignity when regarded merely as an object of speculation, as inapplicable to solving practical problems."
Alexander von Humboldt
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“Before being free, it is necessary to be just” – Alexander von Humboldt
"Before being free, it is necessary to be just."
Alexander von Humboldt
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote About Collaboration by Alexander von Humboldt
"Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others."
Alexander von Humboldt
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote About Time by Alexander von Humboldt
"Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved."
Alexander von Humboldt