Famous quotes containing the words frederick ii, emperor and/or frederick:
“Our work ... is to present things that are as they are.”
—Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194–1250)
“Even the emperor has straw-sandaled relatives.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically
digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one. The
knowledge of reasons and their conclusions constitutes abstract, that of causes and their effects, and of the laws of nature, natural science.”
—John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871)