It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen… — Louis Agassiz Animal Copy Share Image
It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God. — Louis Agassiz Glory Copy Share Image
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with… — Louis Agassiz Argument 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.… — Louis Agassiz Ability 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… — Louis Agassiz Believe 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… — Louis Agassiz Earth Copy Share Image
Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander. — Louis Agassiz Absolute truth 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… — Louis Agassiz Acknowledge 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 Attainment 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,… — Louis Agassiz Beauty 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… — Louis Agassiz Book 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,… — Louis Agassiz Accused 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… — Louis Agassiz Boxes Copy Share Image
Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till… — Louis Agassiz Facts Copy Share Image
I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the… — Louis Agassiz Allure Copy Share Image
“Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been… — Louis Agassiz Bible Copy Share Image
The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it… — Louis Agassiz Age 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 Cease Copy Share Image
The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. — Louis Agassiz Appeals Copy Share Image
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is… — Louis Agassiz Cases Copy Share Image
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