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Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

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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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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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Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
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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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Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
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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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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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Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a medium hired at a guinea a seance.
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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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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'
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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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