Frases de Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz foi um zoólogo, geólogo suíço, notório por sua Expedição Thayer. Agassiz foi um dos promotores e principais defensores do racismo científico e do criacionismo no século XIX. Por causa disso, as homenagens a ele estão sendo anacronicamente questionadas no presente ignorando as divergências tempóreas e de valores comuns em sua época e valores de seus opositores ideológicos que sequer são valores universais ou gerais visto que não são os únicos existentes. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Maio 1807 – 14. Dezembro 1873
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Louis Agassiz: Frases em inglês

“The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.”

Geological Sketches (1870), ch. 9, p. 234 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044018968388;view=1up;seq=252

“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.”

As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) edited by Alan L. Mackay, ( p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=KwESE88CGa8C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=every+scientific+truth+goes+through+three+stages+first+people+say+it+conflicts+with+the+bible+next+they+say+it+had+been+discovered+before+lastly+they+say+they+always+believed+in+it&source=web&ots=DKSjGVklFG&sig=TGpJ6LSI9CE4s7Nu8wUiGAq3rgI)

“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.”

Methods of Study in Natural History (1863), ch. 4, p. 42 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065771407;view=1up;seq=56

“The crust of our earth is a great cemetery, where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs.”

Geological Sketches (1870), ch. 2, p. 31 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044018968388;view=1up;seq=49

“But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according to certain common structural characters.”

Methods of Study in Natural History (1863), ch. 1, p. 7 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065771407;view=1up;seq=21