Thomas 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.” -Thomas Huxley
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“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.” -Thomas Huxley
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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.” -Thomas Huxley
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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.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!” -Thomas Huxley
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“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” -Thomas Huxley
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“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.” -Thomas 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.” -Thomas Huxley
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“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.” -Thomas Huxley
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“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.” -Thomas Huxley
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“I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.” -Thomas Huxley
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“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.” -Thomas Huxley
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“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.” -Thomas Huxley
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“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.” -Thomas Huxley
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“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.” -Thomas Huxley
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“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.” -Thomas Huxley
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“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.” -Thomas Huxley
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