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Quotes from Equinoctial Regions of America — Alexander von Humboldt

1769–1859 Germany

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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.

Equinoctial Regions of America (1814)

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

Equinoctial Regions of America (1814)

In order to ameliorate without commotion new institutions must be made, as it were, to rise out of those which the barbarism of centuries has consecrated.

Equinoctial Regions of America (1814)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander von Humboldt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.