COSMOS Quotes

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others—but none in themselves nobler than others.”
― Alexander von Humboldt, Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe: Part One, 1858

“In considering the study of physical phenomena, not merely in its bearings on the material wants of life, but in its general influence on the intellectual advancement of mankind, we find its noblest and most important result to be a knowledge of the chain of connection, by which all natural forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent upon each other; and it is the perception of these relations that exalts our views and ennobles our enjoyments.”
― Alexander von Humboldt, COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

“scientific”
― Alexander von Humboldt, COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

“near”
― Alexander von Humboldt, COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1