As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon…

Louis Agassiz
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As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence. ✨ Louis Agassiz (1857). Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America: pt. I. Essay on classification. pt. II. North American Testudinata. 1857, p.139
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