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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.
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The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
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I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
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The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
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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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There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
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Science is simply common sense at its best.
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If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived.
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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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Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
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Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
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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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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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In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
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What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
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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 only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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