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Men Quotes by Louis Agassiz
- The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey…
- A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a…
- I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God…
- I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within…
- In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence.…
- It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of…
- As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich…
- I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a…
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