Creative Quotations from Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)

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Louis Agassiz
(1807-1873) born on May 28

Swiss-US naturalist, geologist, teacher. He made revolutionary contributions to natural science with landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes; opposed Darwin's theory.

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

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

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

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.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," by Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
R:	In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," by Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
A:	In "Peter's Quotations," by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.
N:	When asked to give a lecture for a fee; in "The Book of Success," ed. Richard Shea, 1993.
K:	In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.