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Science is simply common sense at its best.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
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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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The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
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The birth of science was the death of superstition.
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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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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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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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Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
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Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.
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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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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
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