Louis Agassiz - Scientific Quotes

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The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

Louis Agassiz
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does...As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of possibilities or even probabilities, without a basis of fact, it departs from the true scientific method and injures science, as most of the devotees of the new ism have already done.

Louis Agassiz
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
The only true scientific system must be one in which the thought, the intellectual structure, rises out of, and is based upon, facts.

Louis Agassiz
A laboratory of Natural History is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory. In David Stair Jordan

Louis Agassiz
Nothing is more to be deprecated than an over-appreciation of technicalities, valuing the name more highly than the thing; but some knowledge of this scientific nomenclature is necessary to every student of Nature.

Louis Agassiz
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me in a belief in God. A God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing point of human knowledge - adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

Louis Agassiz
It must be for truth's sake, and not even for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.

Louis Agassiz