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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.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
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The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.
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If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.
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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
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Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
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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.
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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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