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Science is but an image of the truth. (Agassiz Louis)
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. (Agassiz Louis)
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. (Agassiz Louis)
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. (Agassiz Louis)
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. (Agassiz Louis)
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures. (Agassiz Louis)
Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science. (Agassiz Louis)
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. (Agassiz Louis)
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. (Agassiz Louis)
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. (Agassiz Louis)
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. (Agassiz Louis)
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work. (Agassiz Louis)
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries. (Agassiz Louis)
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance. (Agassiz Louis)
O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair? (Agassiz Louis)
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. (Agassiz Louis)
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. (Agassiz Louis)
The true science and study of man, is man himself. (Agassiz Louis)
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. (Agassiz Louis)
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. (Agassiz Louis)
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. (Agassiz Louis)
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