 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1871 - 422 lehte
...noble words: " I have devoted my whole life to the study of nature and yet a single sentence expresses all that I have done. I have shown that there is a...geological times and the different stages of their growth ia the egg, this is all." * Such is the humility of a comprehensive mind that knows what others have... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1871 - 422 lehte
...them, not one true man ever felt a conceit of knowledge. Hear Agassiz' noble words: "I have devoted my whole life to the study of nature and yet a single sentence expresses all that I have done. 1 have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession... | |
 | 1875 - 418 lehte
...Natural History aw a Science. By WW CALKINS. Said the great, the lamented Agassiz : " I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done." This confession, coming from one who occupied the very highest rank among the learned, and who desired... | |
 | Laurentine Hamilton - 1881 - 288 lehte
...Agassiz to the witness-stand. He opens his testimony with these remarkable words: "I have devoted my whole life to the study of nature, and yet a single...and the different stages of their growth in the egg — that is all." He means to say that if you place the egg of the highest species of fish under examination,... | |
 | Louis Agassiz - 1891 - 340 lehte
...of my own efforts, and to sum up in the fewest words the result of my life's work. I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single...correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geologi cal times and the different stages of their growth in the egg, — this is all. It chanced... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 766 lehte
...whole life to the study of Nature." Louis Agassiz said in summing up the result of his life's work, "and yet a single sentence may express all that I...stages of their growth in the egg, — this is all." And that being all in a student and man of genius like Agassiz, to whom a physical fact was as sacred... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 768 lehte
...whole life to the study of Nature," Louis Agassiz said in summing up the result of his life's work, "and yet a single sentence may express all that I...stages of their growth in the egg, — this is all." And that being all in a student and man of genius like Agassiz, to whom a physical fact was as sacred... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 764 lehte
...whole life to the study of Nature," Louis Agassiz said in summing up the result of his life's work, "and yet a single sentence may express all that I...stages of their growth in the egg, — this is all." And that being all in a student and man of genius like Agassiz, to whom a physical fact was as sacred... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 772 lehte
...whole life to the study of Nature," Louis Agassiz said in summing up the result of his life's work, "and yet a single sentence may express all that I...stages of their growth in the egg, — this is all." And that being all in a student and man of genius like Agassiz, to whom a physical fact was as sacred... | |
 | Alice Bache Gould - 1901 - 198 lehte
...this he recognised as the greatest result of his research. Long afterward he said: "I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single...stages of their growth in the egg — this is all." To-day this is taken as due to inheritance, and as one of the strongest reasons for believing in the... | |
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth... 
