When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — Louis Agassiz All time Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands… — Louis Agassiz Allegiance Copy Share Image
A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is… — Louis Agassiz Desirable Copy Share Image
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing… — Louis Agassiz Beach 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 Activity Copy Share Image
But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that… — Louis Agassiz Boundaries Copy Share Image
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz Affinity Copy Share Image
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is… — Louis Agassiz Add Copy Share Image
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,… — Louis Agassiz Age Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Addresses 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 Conclusion 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.… — Louis Agassiz Chemistry 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 Branches Copy Share Image
Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided… — Louis Agassiz Cricket 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 Belief 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 Absolute truth 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 Conditions 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 America Copy Share Image
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise. — Louis Agassiz Conception Copy Share Image
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. — Louis Agassiz Facts Copy Share Image
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz Agony Copy Share Image
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must… — Louis Agassiz Deities Copy Share Image
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. — Louis Agassiz Education Copy Share Image
There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach… — Louis Agassiz Booksellers 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 Age Copy Share Image
