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Louis Agassiz: The glacier was...

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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?

Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, by Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Louis Agassiz, (May 28 1807-1873), 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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