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Louis Agassiz (8)

Birth:	28th May, 1807
Death:	14th December, 1873
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Glaciologist, Paleontologist, Geologist, Inventor, Professor

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• The study of nature is interwoven with the highest mind. You should never trifle with nature.

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• The student must remember, for his consolation…that his failures are almost as important to the cause of science and to those who follow him in the same road, as his successes. It is much to know what we cannot do in any given direction—the first step, indeed, toward the accomplishment of what we can do.

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• The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

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• Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

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• Study nature, not books.

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• Every 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.

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• The glacier was God’s great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

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• I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

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