Quotes by Louis Agassiz

“Study nature, not books”

“The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.”

“I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth”

“Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.”

“The glacier was Gods great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?”

“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.”

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned, Orders, by the degrees of complication of that structure, Families, by their form, as far as determined by structure, Genera, by the details of the execution in special parts, andSpecies, by the relations of individuals to one another and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation, etc.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.