Louis Agassiz Quotes

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

I'm here to make sense.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.