In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.


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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits...
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I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibilit...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
"Learn what is true in order to do what is right" is the summing up of the whole duty of man
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you ha...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gall...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, s...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more h...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last f...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more ne...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterl...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the ar...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a vetera...
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