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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.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a medium hired at a guinea a seance.
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
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It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.
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