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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything."	Miscellaneous
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself to 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 person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learn thoroughly."	Ability, Education, Learning
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."	Excellence, Knowledge, Wisdom
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."	Excellence, Knowledge, Life
"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."	Intelligence, Learning, Nature
"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 Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."	Ignorance, Knowledge, Law
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."	Honesty, Truth
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."	Intelligence, Learning, Nature
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."	Excellence, Knowledge, Life
"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense."	Miscellaneous
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"	Anger, Knowledge, Men
"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."	Age, Beauty, Excellence

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