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
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — 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 have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. — 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