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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a medium hired at a guinea a seance.
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?
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To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.
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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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Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
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