Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Quotes

This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.
[It had formerly been held that there were no genetic connections among species.] ~ Asa Gray

The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands our human reach. ~ Jean-Louis Gassee

To Roland's relief, Jean de Joinville came to his aid. "Sire, this good knight wants only to preserve your life. Let us all ride together against the Egyptians."
"If I ride against them alone, God will protect me," said Louis.
A new figure pushed into the circle. He wore the white surcoat and red cross of a Templar over his mail. With a leap of his heart, Roland recognized Guido Bruchesi.
Guido looked at him but did not acknowledge him. He went directly to the King.
He spoke quietly but firmly. "Sire, what you have just said is presumption."
"I do not see how that could be, brother Templar." But Louis took his foot out of the stirrup as Roland watched with growing hope. You can always catch Louis's attention with a religious argument, Roland thought, even on the battlefield.
"Sire," said Guido, "Satan tempted our Seigneur Jesus, telling Him that if He cast Himself down from the mountaintop, angels would lift him up." Guido cast a sidelong look at Amalric. "You, Sire, are being tempted to ride alone against the whole Egyptian army, expecting God's protection. You are demanding a miracle. That is presumption."
Louis was silent for a moment. "Perhaps you are right."
Roland let out a long breath. ~ Robert Shea

All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth. ~ Jean Louis

I think it is better for societies if no one dominates forever. ~ Jean Louis

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. ~ Jean Rostand

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me. ~ Jean-Louis Trintignant

Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good. ~ Jean-Louis Gassee

It's a beautiful thing when someone presence alone whisper to your soul "I am Here for you. ~ Micheline Jean Louis

I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know. ~ Jean Louis

You have to wake up a virgin each morning. ~ Jean-Louis Barrault

On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather. ~ Jean-Louis Gassee

When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the famous Postulatum of Euclid, relative to the theory of parallels. This demonstration rested on an obvious paralogism, which appeared as such to everybody; and probably Lagrange also recognised it such during his lecture. For, when he had finished, he put the paper back in his pocket, and spoke no more of it. A moment of universal silence followed, and one passed immediately to other concerns. ~ Jean-Baptiste Biot

I am of course lost in this journey I'm on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. so call me a fool, but I'm happy to be lost. ~ Micheline Jean Louis

That makes my nipples hard! ~ Jean-Louis Gassee

[on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery within themselves, and that I think is the sign of a truly great actor, to be able to maintain that. ~ Michael Haneke

Keep working on yourself; eventually you will get to the point where you don't need anyone else's love to define you. ~ Micheline Jean Louis

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not. ~ Jean-Louis Trintignant

When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn. ~ Jean-Louis Barrault

I've been dealing with pressure all life long. Coming from a very poor family in Haiti, moving to Paris, a new place, a new culture, a new language. I used that pressure to adapt, to do better than everyone else, and I moved around quite a bit as well. ~ Jimmy Jean-Louis

It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true. ~ Jimmy Jean-Louis

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration. ~ Jean-Louis Barrault

Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.' ~ Jean Louis

The beautiful you is not the color of your skin

Or the texture of your hair.

The beautiful you is not how tall or short you are

The beautiful you is not rather you're skinny or overweight by society standards

The beautiful you is not the degrees you have obtain

Or the size of your bank accounts.

The beautiful you, has nothing to do with where you're from, or religious beliefs

Nor the car you drive or the house you live in.

The beautiful you is not the price tag of what you wear

The beautiful you has nothing do with how eloquent you speak

The beautiful you is your kindness and compassion toward others

The beautiful you is your tolerance and patience

The beautiful you is your ability to love and forgive

The beautiful you don't rush to judge what you don't understand

The beautiful you is always seeking to evolve into its higher self

That is the beautiful you and that is what the world needs

The beautiful you is what defines our Humanity

The Beautiful you, Be that Always! ~ Micheline Jean Louis

I hope one day love will find you and kiss all the places in your soul that's been scarred ~ Micheline Jean Louis

Happiness is a great big hug, hugging us from the inside. allow yourself to feel its warmth and grace ~ Micheline Jean Louis

Your smile is poetry to my soul igniting flames of old ~ Micheline Jean Louis

There is a journey that's waiting for you, you will make great discoveries, you will find treasures and hidden powers, it's a journey divinely design just for you, Today be brave in self-love and start the journey within yourself, There God is waiting to show you his masterpiece of love. ~ Micheline Jean Louis

It takes courage to forgive love and allow yourself to embrace it again, its like discovering wings you thought you've lost ~ Micheline Jean Louis

Beauty is in the streets," they say in Paris. We travelers know our favorites, Parisians know theirs. Jean Genet liked to stand with his friend Giacometti at the foot of rue Oberkampf, taking in its long uphill from the Marais to Belleville. Simone Weil loved walking the quays of Île Saint-Louis in her native river city. The scruffy streets of the ninth were François Truffaut's muse and mother.

As cities evolve and erupt, streets change; Parisians come and go. But the beauty remains. ~ Susan Cahill

The past is solid, the future is liquid. ~ Jean-Louis Aubert

I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped. ~ Jean-Louis Gassee

One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colours of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy. ~ Jean-Louis Gassee

You will only receive from the universe the fruits of your thoughts ~ Micheline Jean Louis

The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today. ~ Jean Louis

The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes ~ Jean-Louis Murat