With the simplest statements of scientific facts there must ever mingle a certain eloquence. Nature herself is sublimely eloquent. The stars as they sparkle in the firmament fill us with delight and ecstasy, and yet they all move in orbits marked out with mathematical precision.


In: Julius Lowenberg, Robert Ave-Lallemant, Alfred Wilhelm Dove (ed.), Translated by Jane and Caroline Lassell, Life of Alexander von Humbolt: Compiled in Commemoration of the, Centenary of His Birth (Volume 2)

Alexander von Humboldt Quotes

With the simplest statements of scientific facts there must ever mingle a certain eloquence. Nature herself is sublimely eloquent. The stars as they...

With the simplest statements of scientific facts there must ever mingle a certain eloquence. Nature herself is sublimely eloquent. The stars as they...

With the simplest statements of scientific facts there must ever mingle a certain eloquence. Nature herself is sublimely eloquent. The stars as they...

With the simplest statements of scientific facts there must ever mingle a certain eloquence. Nature herself is sublimely eloquent. The stars as they...