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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. View quote
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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. View quote
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. View quote
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No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. View quote
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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! View quote
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Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than the differences. ...be the differences between the hand and foot of Man and those of the Gorilla what they may-the differences between those of the Gorilla and those of the lower Apes are much greater. View quote
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Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions. View quote
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Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt. View quote
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It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. View quote
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. View quote
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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 him who has the eyes to see them. View quote
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As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man. View quote
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That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. View quote
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. View quote
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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. View quote
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My reflection when I first made myself master of the central idea of the Origin was, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." View quote
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The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed. View quote
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Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man. View quote
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Whatever part of the animal fabric-whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison-the result would be the same-the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent. View quote
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The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance. View quote
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I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything... View quote
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascod, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. View quote
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