Quotes from authors passed in 1873
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Louis Agassiz
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
Louis Agassiz
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
John Stuart Mill
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Joseph Howe
William S. Hart 
Gregg Allman 
Larry Wall 
Judd Apatow 
Don Knotts 
River Phoenix 
John Milton 
Chester Gould