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• A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Freedom, Men, Able

  "Address on University Education" (1876)

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• It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

  Thomas Huxley

  Math, Statistics, Firsts

  Man's Place in Nature II (p. 126)

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• Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

  Thomas Huxley

  God, Christian, Nature

  Letter to Charles Kingsley, mathcs.clarku.edu. September 23, 1860.

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• If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Play, Individuality, Progress

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.76

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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Land, Generations

  Thomas Henry Huxley “Selected Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, Library of Alexandria

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• Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Motivational, Science, Open Minded

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Intelligent, Men

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• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Trust, Time, Truth

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

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• If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Science, Law

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Double Standard, Benefits

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.21

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• Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

  Thomas Huxley

  Dream, Accomplishment, Path

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• The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

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  Children, Eye, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.432, Cambridge University Press

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• People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

  Thomas Huxley

  Teaching, People, Intellectual

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Country, Art

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Strong, Sex, Women

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• God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

  Thomas Huxley

  Giving, Faces, Facts

  Nature Vol. 149 (p. 291), January-June 1942.

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• Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

  Thomas Huxley

  Money, Lying, Doe

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Business, Knowledge

  "Technical Education" (1877)

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• 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Infidelity, Modesty

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata'

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• A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.

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  Powerful, Water, Thunder

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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

  Science, Sin, Blind

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

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  Life Is Too Short, Slaying, Oneself

  Athenaeum magazine, p. 498, April 13, 1861.

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• And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

  Thomas Huxley

  People, Absurd, Prove

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.246, University of Georgia Press

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• Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fire, Doubt, Atheism

  "T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator". Book by Cyril Bibby, p. 257, 1950.

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