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Geographer Inspirational Quotes (1139)

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Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought
Franz Boas
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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle
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We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
Vaclav Smil
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
Aristotle
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Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
Aristotle
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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Aristotle
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher for myth is composed of wonder.
Aristotle
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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Aristotle
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the biggest ever scientific fraud
Andrey Kapitsa
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
Aristotle
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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
Aristotle
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
Aristotle
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He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.
Daniel Coit Gilman
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Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
Jared Diamond
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
Anaximander
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Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.
Anaximander
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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
Aristotle
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
Aristotle
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
John Wesley Powell
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The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
Jared Diamond
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