“Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.” — 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. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection. — 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
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