English - Scientist | May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Thomas Huxley
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
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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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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
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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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Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
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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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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
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Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
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