Thomas Huxley

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Thomas Huxley

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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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