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Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.
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To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.
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It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
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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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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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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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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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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
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It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'.
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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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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
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A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.
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No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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