Thomas Huxley quotes
"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady."
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"The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything."
"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"
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to wh"
"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of N"
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."