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The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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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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I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
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It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.
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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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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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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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The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a 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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