Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till we place them in their true relations, and recognize the thought that binds them together. — 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
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
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