Quotes Tagged With :alexander

I’m getting off the boat at Coconut Grove. It’s six and you’re not on the dock. I finish up, and....

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement....

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious,....

Tatiana hugged him and said, “And here’s mine: ‘Honey, what do you prefer—my beautiful body or....

Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became....

Protector and destroyer were two sides of the same coin. Who knew which one would come out in a toss-up?....

Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished....

They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army,....

If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among....