Quote of the day by Alexander von Humboldt: “The most important result of a rational inquiry into nature is… to establish the unity and harmony” |
Alexander von Humboldt spent much of his life travelling through landscapes that most Europeans of his era knew only from maps, then trying to understand what connected the things he encountered. He climbed mountains, measured temperatures and atmospheric pressure, recorded plants and minerals and compared conditions across different elevations. His work eventually led him to…
