Quotes Tagged With :alexander

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

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not e

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

I think it's your bosoms." Rand Surveyed him critically. "The dress wouldn't be as tight if they weren;t....

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates.....

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Peter to Austin:"Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think....

It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the....

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