It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them,… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God. — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image