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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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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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Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
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Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.
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To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.
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Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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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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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
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It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.
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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
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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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