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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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Kentucky
T. H. Huxley
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A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.
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The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
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[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.
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There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
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As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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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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There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
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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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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
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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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I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...
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No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
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Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.
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