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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz è stato un biologo, zoologo, paleontologo e ittiologo svizzero; fu anche un valente alpinista e glaciologo. Svolse gran parte della propria attività negli Stati Uniti.

Sposato con l'educatrice Elizabeth Cabot Cary, fu uno dei maggiori scienziati statunitensi del suo tempo. Viene ricordato principalmente per il suo lavoro sulle ere glaciali e per essere stato uno dei maggiori zoologi antievoluzionisti.

Agassiz ha fornito ampi contributi alla classificazione ittiologica e allo studio della storia geologica , ed è diventato ampiamente noto attraverso lo studio del suo accurato regime di raccolta e analisi dei dati osservativi. Ha apportato ampi contributi istituzionali e scientifici alla zoologia, alla geologia e alle aree correlate, incluse molte serie di ricerche su più volumi .

Nel XXI secolo, la sua resistenza all'evoluzione darwiniana e il razzismo scientifico evidente nei suoi scritti sul poligenismo umano hanno offuscato la sua reputazione e portato a controversie sulla sua eredità. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Maggio 1807 – 14. Dicembre 1873
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Louis Agassiz: Frasi in inglese

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

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

“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 complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it.”

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Geological Sketches (1870), ch. 2, pp. 31–32 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044018968388;view=1up;seq=49

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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

“The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.”

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Evolution and Permanence of Type (1874)

“Foldings of the earth's crust, low hills, extensive plains, mountain-chains and narrow valleys, broad table-lands and wide valleys, local chimneys or volcanoes, river-beds, lake-basins, inland seas,—such are some of the phenomena which, disconnected as they seem at first glance, have nevertheless been brought under certain principles, and explained according to definite physical laws.”

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Geological Sketches (1870), ch 4, p. 98 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044018968388;view=1up;seq=116

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

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

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