Great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Source: Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola’s De Re Metallica (1556). Complete Sentence: Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows Read More…