Source notes: Notes by Agassiz lecture attendee David Starr (D.S.) Jordan: “Notes taken from the lectures of Prof. Agassiz on Penikese Island, given largely in the author’s own words.” (Footnote, p. 217)

Although the Jordan does not provide any specific lecture dates, the Penikese Island lab opened in July 1873 and Agassiz lectured there for just a few months until he suffered a stroke and ultimately died in December of the same year. Jordan did work & study at the Penikese school under Agassiz, but it should be noted that this is a second hand source and not directly from Agassiz’s own written lecture material.

No extended excerpt – full paragraph cited.

Source link: “Hints to Teachers of Natural History” (May 1875) The Indiana School Journal; online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=sskBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217&dq=A+laboratory+of+natural+history+is+a+sanctuary+where+nothing+profane+should+be+tolerated

Extended excerpt: [Science essay in The Atlantic Monthly magazine]

“The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. In the mean while, I am not sorry that just at this moment, when recent investigations and publications have aroused new interest in the glaciers, the course of these articles brings me naturally to a discussion of the subject in its bearing upon geological questions.” (p. 751)

Source link: “Internal Structure and Progression of the Glacier” (Dec. 1863) The Atlantic Monthly, online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=o10CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA751&lpg=PA751&dq=Facts+will+eventually+test+all+our+theories,+and+they+form,+after+all,+the+only+impartial+jury+to+which+we+can+appeal&source

Misquote note:

In this instance, one common misquote omits “You must” (“You must learn to read…”) and changes “which once in a while broadened out” to “which once in a while has broadened out”:

Original text: “Lay aside all conceit. You must learn to read the book of nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.”

Misquote: “Lay aside all conceit. Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.”

Extended excerpt [See source note below] “Lay aside all conceit. You must learn to read the book of nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.”

Source note: Notes by Agassiz lecture attendee David Starr (D.S.) Jordan: “Notes taken from the lectures of Prof. Agassiz on Penikese Island, given largely in the author’s own words.” (Footnote, p. 217)

Although the Jordan does not provide any specific lecture dates, the Penikese Island lab opened in July 1873 and Agassiz lectured there for just a few months until he suffered a stroke and ultimately died in December of the same year. Jordan did work & study at the Penikese school under Agassiz, but it should be noted that this is a second hand source and not directly from Agassiz’s own written lecture material.

Source link: “Hints to Teachers of Natural History” (May 1875) The Indiana School Journal; online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=sskBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA215&dq=Lay+aside+all+conceit+Learn+to+read+the+book

Extended excerpt: [Non-fiction – Chapter IV, ‘Classification and Creation’]

“Besides, the time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world; for we have reached the point where the results of science touch the very problem of existence, and all men listen for the solving of that mystery.” (p. 42)

Source link: Methods of Study in Natural History (1863|1866 Ticknor & Fields 3rd edition) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/methodsstudyinn04agasgoog?ref=ol#page/n56/mode/2up/search/scientific+truth+must+cease+to+be

Misquote note: Some sources have misquoted the “Hints to Teachers of Natural History” Agassiz lecture notes by adding, omitting, and/or substituting words.  In this case, all three types of changes were made in some of the circulating misquote versions:

Original text: “The study of nature is an intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with nature. At the lowest, her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest Something in whatever way we look at it.

Misquote: “The study of nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it…This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.”

Extended excerpt [See source note below] “Lay aside all conceit. You must learn to read the book of nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.”

Source note: Notes by Agassiz lecture attendee David Starr (D.S.) Jordan: “Notes taken from the lectures of Prof. Agassiz on Penikese Island, given largely in the author’s own words.” (Footnote, p. 217)

Although the Jordan does not provide any specific lecture dates, the Penikese Island lab opened in July 1873 and Agassiz lectured there for just a few months until he suffered a stroke and ultimately died in December of the same year. Jordan did work & study at the Penikese school under Agassiz, but it should be noted that this is a second hand source and not directly from Agassiz’s own written lecture material.

Source link: “Hints to Teachers of Natural History” (May 1875) The Indiana School Journal; online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=sskBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA216&dq=study+of+nature+is+an+intercourse

Misquote note: Some sources have misquoted the “Hints to Teachers of Natural History” Agassiz lecture notes by adding, omitting, and/or substituting words.  A couple of minor changes appear in the misquote below, but note that the final change – substituting the original word “books” for “brooks” – substantially changes the meaning of the misquoted sentence:

Original text: “There is no part of the country where, in the summer, you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best of specimens. Teach your children to bring them in themselves. Take your text from the books, not from the booksellers.”

Misquote: “There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to bring them in for themselves. Take your text from the brooks, not from the booksellers.”

Source notes: Notes by Agassiz lecture attendee David Starr (D.S.) Jordan: “Notes taken from the lectures of Prof. Agassiz on Penikese Island, given largely in the author’s own words.” (Footnote, p. 217)

Although the Jordan does not provide any specific lecture dates, the Penikese Island lab opened in July 1873 and Agassiz lectured there for just a few months until he suffered a stroke and ultimately died in December of the same year. Jordan did work & study at the Penikese school under Agassiz, but it should be noted that this is a second hand source and not directly from Agassiz’s own written lecture material.

Source link: “Hints to Teachers of Natural History” (May 1875) The Indiana School Journal; online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=sskBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA216&dq=There+is+no+part+of+the+country+where