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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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 sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
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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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It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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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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The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.
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Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
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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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The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
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I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
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There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
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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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It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
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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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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
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