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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
1845·Berlin, Germany

In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.

Locus

Berlin, Germany

Tempus

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People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once. But can you really forbid a man from harboring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

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Nature, considered rationally, that is to say, submitted to the process of thought, is a unity in diversity of phenomena; a harmony, blending together all created things, however dissimilar in form and attributes; one great whole animated by the breath of life.

1803

Everything is interaction and reciprocal.

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