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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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Double Standard, Benefits

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.21

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• People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

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  Teaching, People, Intellectual

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

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  Education, Country, Art

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• 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.

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  God, Christian, Nature

  Letter to Charles Kingsley, mathcs.clarku.edu. September 23, 1860.

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• The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.

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  Animal, Miracle, Development

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

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  Science, Function, Accounts

  Thomas H. Huxley (2013). “Man's Place in Nature”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

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  Leadership, Sports, Freedom

  'Collected Essays' vol. 3 (1895) 'On Elementary Instruction in Physiology' (written 1877)

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• History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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  Truth, Humility, Fate

  "The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)

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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.

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  Life, Eye, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.37, Lulu.com

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• Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

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  Respect, Thinking, Monkeys

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 253), 1994.

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• If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

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  Play, Individuality, Progress

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.76

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• 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.

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  Knowledge, College, Looks

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• I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

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  Education, Teaching, Care

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• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

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  Trust, Time, Truth

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

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• What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

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  Science, Men, Wages

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.287, Cambridge University Press

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• Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

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  Motivational, Science, Open Minded

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

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• For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.

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  Science, Past, Years

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley”

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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.

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  Men, Hands, Differences

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 110, 1863.

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• Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

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  Next, Facts, World

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?

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  Weed, Garden, Compassion

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.47, 1st World Publishing

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• For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

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  Reality, Sea, Weakness

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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• I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

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  Charity, Littles, I Can

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• I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.

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  Strong, Science, Intelligent

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.277, University of Georgia Press

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• It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

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  Education, Organization, Body

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews”, p.403, tredition

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• Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

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  Friendship, Appreciate, Noble

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