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It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
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 only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
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There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
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If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.
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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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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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Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
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Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.
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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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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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In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.
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People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.
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That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.
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No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
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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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Fact I know and Law I know but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
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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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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
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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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