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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
Anatomist
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T. H. Huxley
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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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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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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Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
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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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If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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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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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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Science is simply common sense at its best.
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