Ichthyologist

🇺🇸Louis Agassiz

Science

1807–1873

"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."

🇺🇸George Brown Goode

Literature

1851–1896

"The exposition or exhibition and fair are primarily for the promotion of industry and commerce; the museum for the development of learning."

Thomas Henry Huxley

Science

1825–1895

"Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains."

"It is you who judges who you are. In this way, the judgment is accurate."

🇺🇸William Beebe

Science

1877–1962

"The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living."

"“...from its name, Ramgar, I am inclined to support that it was a part of the building actually erected by Rama."

"I had jars in my bedroom, much to the chagrin of my mother, you couldn't throw away a mayonnaise jar in my house. That was a specimen jar."

🇫🇷Georges Cuvier

Science

1769–1832

"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."