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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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America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land…
— Louis Agassiz
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Maybe that’s why I’ve made it as far as I have – 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time…
— Terry Fox
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Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
— Simon Newcomb
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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century…
— Keith Donohue
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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my…
— Robert MacNeil
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I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with…
— Peter MacKay
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I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws…
— Peter MacKay
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I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.
— Ellen Page
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Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
— Joseph Monninger
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of…
— Nathaniel Smith
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Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in…
— Harry Johnston
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