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Great Quotes by Louis Agassiz
- In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a…
- One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,…
- The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery…
- The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain…
- Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly,…
- The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now…
- The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface…
- But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer…
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