“The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.”

About Louis Agassiz

Scientist • Swiss-American

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist recognized as a leading scholar of Earth's natural history. He is renowned for his extensive work on ichthyology, classifying thousands of...