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Thomas Jefferson
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual,....
Charles Darwin
[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
Robert G. Ingersoll
If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among....
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
Alain de Botton
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times....
Claude Louis Berthollet
This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.
Alain de Botton
Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished....
Robert G. Ingersoll
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
Simón Bolívar
The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for....
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