A man cannot be a professor of zoology on one day, and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians — one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.


In: Charles Frederick Holder, Louis Agassiz: His Life and Work, At Penikese (p. 174), G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1893

Louis Agassiz Quotes

A man cannot be a professor of zoology on one day, and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians — one...

A man cannot be a professor of zoology on one day, and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians — one...

A man cannot be a professor of zoology on one day, and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians — one...

A man cannot be a professor of zoology on one day, and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians — one...