Louis Agassiz Quotes

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

Louis Agassiz

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• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • God
  • Society
  • Alive

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Deep

• Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Great
  • Something
  • Lot

• Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Process

• The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • People
  • Energy
  • Die

• I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Everything
  • Nothing
  • Will

• When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

  

  Nas
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• For a song I was boughtNow I lie when I talkWith a careful eye on the cue card.Onto a stage I was pushed,With my sorrow well rehearsed.So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Money
  • Song

• I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Marriage

• I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Life
  • Food
  • Shoes

• The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Long
  • Women

• Somehow, people just like to look at me.

  

  Dorothy Dandridge
  • People

• I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.

  

  George Dyson
  • People
  • World
  • Single

• Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

  

  Alveda King
  • May
  • Way
  • Financial

• But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Long
  • Night
  • Forever

• It's hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they're a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would've been easier if you'd never had it at all.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Different
  • Things
  • Return

• It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

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

  

  Louis Agassiz