In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a large jar of these insects, and made every teacher take one and hold it while… — 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 of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share
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. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism,… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share
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
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