Thomas Huxley

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. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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

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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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