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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is… — Louis Agassiz 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
