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Mean Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none but very hasty…
- If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed…
- 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…
- Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will…
- Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means…
- If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's…
- Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
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