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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The publication of the THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY For these two years I have been gravitating towards THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and e...
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Lyell and THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
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[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent ...
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With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty o...
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All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactl...
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The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious...
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With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fou...
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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
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for ...
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Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
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The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibilit...
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It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions
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The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled...
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"Learn what is true in order to do what is right" is the summing up of the whole duty of man
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Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you ha...
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important.
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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec...
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To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gall...
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me
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The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, s...
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Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in ...
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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more h...
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The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last f...
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The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more ne...
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A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words
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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
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The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact
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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterl...
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No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the ar...
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a vetera...
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