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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.


Thomas H. Huxley

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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
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