| Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. |
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- Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. |
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- Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| But the great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact - which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers... |
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- Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| Science is simply common sense at its best. |
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- Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin. |
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- Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? |
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- Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. |
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- Thomas Henry 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. |
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- Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. |
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- Thomas Henry Huxley |
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