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• Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

  Thomas Huxley

  Money, Lying, Doe

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'.

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  Lying, Believe, Responsibility

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• A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

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  Freedom, Men, Able

  "Address on University Education" (1876)

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• And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

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  Infinite, Possibility

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.236, Cambridge University Press

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• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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  Education, Knowledge, Authority And Power

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

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  Bible, Fables, Creation

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• Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.

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  Strong, Sex, Women

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• Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. ... Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

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  Lying, Essence, Principles

  Thomas Henry Huxley (19??). “Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley”

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• The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Sin, Blind

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

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  Fire, Doubt, Atheism

  "T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator". Book by Cyril Bibby, p. 257, 1950.

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• The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

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  Faith, Believe, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Science is simply common sense at its best.

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  Motivational, Math, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

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  Dream, Accomplishment, Path

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• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata'

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• I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

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  Men, Two, Religion

  "The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Alan L. Mackay, 1977.

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• 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

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  Christian, Infidelity, Modesty

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• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

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  Christian, Art, Atheist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.237, tredition

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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.

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  Ocean, Islands, Tasks

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• . . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

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  Religion, Desire, Failing

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

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  Thieves, Mankind, Murderer

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.87, 1st World Publishing

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• In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

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  Matter, Reason, Consideration

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• There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.

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  Real, Men, Talking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

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  Believe, Science, Law

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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