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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
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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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The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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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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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
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Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
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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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Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.
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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
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We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water, as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in which they are put together.
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A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
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It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.
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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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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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The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
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