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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
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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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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
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Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.
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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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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men
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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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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
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[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.
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Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.
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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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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 birth of science was the death of superstition.
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
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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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Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.
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