Famous quote by Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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"Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne"

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This quote is written / told by Johannes Vilhelm Jensen between January 20, 1873 and November 25, 1950. He/she was a famous Author from Denmark. The author also have 5 other quotes.

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"