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Louis Agassiz has 50 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it…
— Bob Beauprez
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back…
— Herman Cain
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
— Jennifer Aniston
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The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our…
— Unknown Author
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We…
— Blaise Pascal
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
— George Santayana
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
— Howard Gardner
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and…
— Joseph Paxton
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I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless,…
— Rajneesh
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