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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.

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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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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

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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.

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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.

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Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

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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.

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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

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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 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.

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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