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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
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The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
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A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
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The birth of science was the death of superstition.
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Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
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Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.
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Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.
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And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
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If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
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Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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