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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

  Fall, Humility, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Book, Science, Two

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• We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water, as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in which they are put together.

  Thomas Huxley

  Water, Together, Able

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means; to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Injustice

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• The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.

  Thomas Huxley

  Real, Oedipus, Views

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• I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Rejection, Mind, Growth

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fashion, Artist, Names

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.262

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• To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Intellectual, Alive

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.206, Cambridge University Press

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• The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Way

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• If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Church, Pieces

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature”, p.119

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• Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

  Thomas Huxley

  Simple, Bricks, Clay

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.99, Lulu.com

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• The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Shoes, Scientific Method

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• The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

  Thomas Huxley

  Expression, Mind, Scientific Method

  "Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1863.

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• In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Facts, Literature

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• Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.

  Thomas Huxley

  Horse, Philosophy, Fall

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• There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

  Thomas Huxley

  Integrity, Believe, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Courage, Pain

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.90, Adam, Stevenson

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• Misery is a match that never goes out.

  Thomas Huxley

  Misery

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Doe, Territory, Size

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.110, Library of Alexandria

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