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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.
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My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'
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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
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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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And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization
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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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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
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Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
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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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Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.
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... our Physick and Anatomy have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
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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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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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