Louis Agassiz Quotes

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honor, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Science has changed the face of this earth: it has harnessed the forces of Nature -- forces whose secret laws it had first to discover -- it has created practically a new world within the memory of men living….Science -- the scientists -- doesn't pretend to have grasped in its fingers the Eternal Truth …Science doesn't demand that one believe or be damned. Science reasons. Science investigates. Science tests itself….Science works -- builds -- quietly prevails -- promises little and performs much.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

Our perceptions are limited. Our brains distort the truth. So do we ever know what is real? That is the mission of science. To probe deep into the massive puzzle box of nature to find its ultimate truths.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.