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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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T. H. Huxley
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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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We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.
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A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.
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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 great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.
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Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
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Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.
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The birth of science was the death of superstition.
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.
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Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.
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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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What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
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Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind
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To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
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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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The known is finite, the unknown infinite intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
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