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I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
Anatomist
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Lexington
Kentucky
T. H. Huxley
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If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
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Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.
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And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
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Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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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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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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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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Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.
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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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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
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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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Let us have sweet girl graduates by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom and the golden hair will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
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Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.
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