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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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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 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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In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
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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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Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
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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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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
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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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Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
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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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There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
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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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I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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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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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
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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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