Ignacy Domeyko Quotes

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I can still feel within me the strength and readiness for hardship and suffering, yet I would like to live long enough to see the day when I might freely work for Poland, and not wander aimlessly through God knows what land.[...] And if death finds me working on alien soil, this too will not be without profit for Poland, particularly if among some distant tribe, the farthest possible from our country, they will remember a Pole, will wish Poland well, and will be supportive toward her.

Ignacy Domeyko

Ignacy Domeyko

Ignacy Domeyko

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Born: July 31, 1802

Died: January 23, 1889 (aged 86)

Bio: Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota was a Polish geologist, mineralogist and educator. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile.

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