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. -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.


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This quote is just one of 6 total Louis Agassiz quotes in our collection. Louis Agassiz is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

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.

Louis Agassiz

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?

Louis Agassiz

I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth.

Louis Agassiz