Louis Agassiz Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the very borders of the Arctics ... But their reign was over. A sudden intense winter, that was also to last for ages, fell upon our globe.

  Louis Agassiz

  Summer, Home, Winter

  "Geological Sketches".

• Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

  Louis Agassiz

  Animal, Affinity, Classification

  Louis Agassiz (1859). “An Essay on Classification”, p.129

• It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

  Louis Agassiz

  Teaching, Knowledge, Science

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