The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

Alexander von Humboldt

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Alexander von Humboldt

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Alexander von Humboldt

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

Alexander von Humboldt

With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

Alexander von Humboldt

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Alexander von Humboldt

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Alexander von Humboldt

Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man;

Alexander von Humboldt

There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Alexander von Humboldt

You feel you are carried into a different world from the one you were born into.

Alexander von Humboldt

This view of a living nature where man is nothing is both odd and sad.

Alexander von Humboldt

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Alexander von Humboldt