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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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Kentucky
T. H. Huxley
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
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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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Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
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If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
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If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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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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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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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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For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.
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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 have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
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A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.
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I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...
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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.
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. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.
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