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Thomas H. Huxley
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Thomas H. Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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Thomas H. Huxley
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
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Thomas H. Huxley
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Thomas H. Huxley
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Thomas H. Huxley
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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