"In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas,……" — Louis Agassiz
"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. The mind's activity that is maintained by the debates about these works, is probably the source of the greatest joys given to man to experience on Earth."
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Louis Agassiz
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45 Quotes by Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz has 45 quotes on this site.
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason,…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work…
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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…
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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…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a…
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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…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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