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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
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I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
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A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.
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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
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