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Georg August Schweinfurth
(29 Dec 1836 - 19 Sep 1925)
German botanist who travelled in the interior of East Africa (from 1868) and studied the inhabitants together with the flora and fauna of the region
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Science Quotes by Georg August Schweinfurth (1 quote)
A terrible wilderness of mountainous country constitutes the immediate environment of St. Paul's. It is a precipitous cliff into the abyss, a gate of hell, more horrible than the fantasy of Dante could express it.
— Georg August Schweinfurth
St. Paul's Monastery is located 300-km southeast of Cairo, on the southern edge of a desert mountain range, adjacent to the Gulf of Suez
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29 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Schweinfurth's birth. -
Georg August Schweinfurth - Quotations
The heart of Africa: Three years' travels and adventures..., by Georg August Schweinfurth. - book suggestion.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
