5 Quotes & Sayings By Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) was a Swiss naturalist, geologist, zoologist, and palaeontologist. The son of a Swiss Reformed pastor, Agassiz attended the University of Neuchâtel for two years, but left before completing his studies. He then began to study natural science at the University of Munich where he received his doctorate in 1831. He worked as a teacher at Neuchâtel and later at several other universities in Germany, including the University of Vienna Read more

He then returned to the University of Neuchâtel where he served as professor of zoology and geology from 1842 to 1847.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Louis Agassiz
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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. Louis Agassiz
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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, and Species, 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. Louis Agassiz
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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. Louis Agassiz