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Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz



Title: Professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
Full Name: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Birthdate: May 28, 1807
Birthplace: Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland
Date of Death: December 14, 1873

Occupation: Scientist
Profile: Regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century.

Website: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/agassiz.html
Number of Quotes: 6




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 have always believed it.

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Study nature, not books.

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.

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