Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend / The wondrous architecture of the world, / And measure every wandering planet’s course, / Still climbing after knowledge infinite,
- Source
- Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 7
- Written
- c. 1587
About this quotation
Tamburlaine speaks the passage in the middle of a speech arguing that restless ambition is simply human nature, and that the only prize equal to it is a crown. The play was first performed around 1587 and printed in 1590.