Alexander von Humboldt Quote

This assemblage of imperfect dogmas bequeathed by one age to another - this physical philosophy, which is composed of popular prejudices - is not only injurious because it perpetuates error with the obstinacy engendered by the evidence of ill observed facts, but also because it hinders the mind from attaining to higher views of nature.


Cosmos (Volume I), Introduction (p. 17)


This assemblage of imperfect dogmas bequeathed by one age to another - this physical philosophy, which is composed of popular prejudices - is not...

This assemblage of imperfect dogmas bequeathed by one age to another - this physical philosophy, which is composed of popular prejudices - is not...

This assemblage of imperfect dogmas bequeathed by one age to another - this physical philosophy, which is composed of popular prejudices - is not...

This assemblage of imperfect dogmas bequeathed by one age to another - this physical philosophy, which is composed of popular prejudices - is not...