praise

You can__ let praise or criticism get to you. It__ a weakness to get caught up in either one.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

I don__ know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don__ know what to make of it.

Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portals of heaven are opening.

It__ great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

If we spend more time praising and thanking God for His daily benefits and blessing and all the good things He bestows, there wouldn't be time to blame, complain. cry and moan over the bad things.

Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shaped and situated as to form a marvelous organ, the structure and composition of which are usually invisible to the naked eye without the aid of a microscope. ... Just as Nature deserves praise and admiration for making machines so small, so too the physician who observes them to the best of his ability is worthy of praise, not blame, for he must also correct and repair these machines as well as he can every time they get out of order.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.