“You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the subject, study the history of the sciences. Broad knowledge of all Nature has been the possession of no naturalist except Humboldt, and general relations constituted his specialty.” Has BeensScienceLinesViewsKnowledgeStudySubjectsHard WorkRelationPossessionBroadsAttainmentNaturalistSpecialty Author:Louis Agassiz
“In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.” Has BeensIdeasAmericaScienceChurchEuropeAccusedHeretic Author:Louis Agassiz
“When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through all time going on in such vast proportions,-when physicists study the laws of moisture, of clouds and storms, in past periods as well as in the present,-when, in short, geologists and zoologists are chemists and physicists, and vice versa,-then we shall learn more of the changes the world has undergone than is possible now that they are separately studied.” WorldWellsHas BeensPastLawScienceStudySpecialPeriodsCloudsVicesStormAll TimeCombinationChanging The WorldProportionChemistryChemicalsPhysicistLaboratoryVice VersaChemistGeologistMoistureZoologist Author:Louis Agassiz
“Every great 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.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensStatesTruthThreeNextConflictAlways BelieveScientific Truth Author:Louis Agassiz
“The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.” Has BeensMadeLightEyePurposeNatureSunComplicatedBeachOrgans Author:Louis Agassiz
“America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth beside; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the Far West.” WorldFirstsHas BeensEarthAmericaScienceWaterLinesSeaLandOceanEuropeConcernedWestIslandsRisingDryShoreNew WorldHere And ThereUnbrokenNova ScotiaNovasDry Land Book:Geological Sketches Source: Geological Sketches
