A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do … - Louis Agassiz

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Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

Louis Agassiz

A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.

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The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

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But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.

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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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I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.

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