This man's last paper says that "Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle.
This man's last paper says that "Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle." This man's wife Elizabeth Cabot Cary recorded much of his work in her diaries. William James overcame his skepticism of this man to travel to Brazil with him, a trip described in Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club. The Thayer and Hassler expeditions gathered data for this man, who exhorts a student to describe a decaying sunfish in a parable which opens Ezra Pound's The ABC of Reading. This first head of the (*) Lawrence Scientific School argued that different races originated independently with no common ancestor in his racist-ass theory of polygenism. A prehistoric lake that covered much of what's now Canada is named after, for 10 points, what Swiss-born celebrity professor who lectured on geology and natural history at 19th-century Harvard?
This man's last paper says that "Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle.
Louis Agassiz