“I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws.” MenNeedsBelieveMadeCountryLawJoyI BelieveEffortPureRaisesWineLicenseTemperanceHail Author:Louis Agassiz
“In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a large jar of these insects, and made every teacher take one and hold it while I was speaking. If any one dropped the insect, I stopped till he picked it up. This was at that time a great innovation, and excited much laughter and derision. There can be no true progress in the teaching of natural science until such methods become general.” IfsMadeScienceNaturalTeacherProgressTeachingSubjectsMassLaughterInnovationMethodExcitedExcitementAddressesInsectsNewtonInstituteJarsNatural ScienceDerisionGrasshoppers Author:Louis Agassiz
“A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something.” MindLittlesMadeScienceStrongKnowledgeLearningPossessionDesirableThoroughFallacy Author:Louis Agassiz
“The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.” WorldWayBelieveMadeStatesScienceLife IsBeliefI BelieveKnowledgePossibilityTheoryConjectureOrigin Of Life 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
