Alexander von Humboldt Quote

The great and solemn spirit that pervades the intellectual labor [of science] arises from the sublime consciousness of striving toward the infinite, and of grasping all that is revealed to us amid the boundless and inexhaustible fullness of creation, development, and being.


Translated by E.C. Otte, Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (Volume 3), Introduction (p. 8)


The great and solemn spirit that pervades the intellectual labor [of science] arises from the sublime consciousness of striving toward the infinite,...

The great and solemn spirit that pervades the intellectual labor [of science] arises from the sublime consciousness of striving toward the infinite,...

The great and solemn spirit that pervades the intellectual labor [of science] arises from the sublime consciousness of striving toward the infinite,...

The great and solemn spirit that pervades the intellectual labor [of science] arises from the sublime consciousness of striving toward the infinite,...