Louis Agassiz

Quotes

• “But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according to certain common structural characters.”
• “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.”
• “The crust of our earth is a great cemetery, where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs.”
• “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 light, there must have been light to enter it.”
• “Foldings of the earth's crust, low hills, extensive plains, mountain-chains and narrow valleys, broad table-lands and wide valleys, local chimneys or volcanoes, river-beds, lake-basins, inland seas,—such are some of the phenomena which, disconnected as they seem at first glance, have nevertheless been brought under certain principles, and explained according to definite physical laws.”
• “The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.”

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