Quotes by Louis Agassiz

• 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.
• Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
• I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
• Study nature, not books.
• 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.
• The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.