The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

- Louis Agassiz

It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.

- 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 c…

- Louis Agassiz

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

- Louis Agassiz

I cannot afford to waste my time making money

- Louis Agassiz

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

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

- Louis Agassiz

Study nature not books

- Louis Agassiz

The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he …

- Louis Agassiz