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Louis Agassiz: Every scientific truth...

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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.

Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. 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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