"When chemists have brought their knowledge out of……" — Louis Agassiz
"When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through all time going on in such vast proportions,-when physicists study the laws of moisture, of clouds and storms, in past periods as well as in the present,-when, in short, geologists and zoologists are chemists and physicists, and vice versa,-then we shall learn more of the changes the world has undergone than is possible now that they are separately studied."
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Louis Agassiz
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45 Quotes by Louis Agassiz
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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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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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In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators…
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