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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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There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
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Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
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Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
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. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.
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Fact I know and Law I know but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
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Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
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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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Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.
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Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
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Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
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Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
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The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
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Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.
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Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization
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Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.
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