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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.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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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 has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
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There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.
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Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
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Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
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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 scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
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It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
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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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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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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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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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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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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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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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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
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In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.
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