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

• 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 do not see scales as abstract.

  

  James Galway

• In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

  

  Sela Ward
  • Country
  • Children
  • Earth

• The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we journalists, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Power
  • Today
  • Reality

• I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

  

  Bill Jay
  • Project
  • Photo

• Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Alone

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

  

  Louis Agassiz