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Thomas Huxley
 
Date of birth: 04 May 1825
Date of death: 29 June 1895
Country Of Origin: England
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" All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. "

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" Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. "

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

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" Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? "

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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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" I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. "

Thomas Huxley
" 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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" I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. "

Thomas Huxley
" If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? "

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" In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. "

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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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" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "

Thomas Huxley
" Learn what is true in order to do what is right. "

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" Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. "

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" Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. "

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