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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
~ Thomas Huxley
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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.
~ 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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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 more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
~ Thomas Huxley
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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
~ 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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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.
~ Thomas Huxley
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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.
~ 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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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
~ Thomas Huxley
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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
~ Thomas Huxley
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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
~ Thomas Huxley
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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.
~ Thomas Huxley
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
~ Thomas Huxley
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
~ Thomas Huxley
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There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
~ 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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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
~ Thomas Huxley
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
~ Thomas Huxley
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