Agassiz Quotes

“I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.”
― Charles Lyell, The Antiquity Of Man

“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

[It had formerly been held that there were no genetic connections among species.]”
― Asa Gray