The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into… — 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
Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure, Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other… — 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
America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose… — 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