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Out Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
- ... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not…
- Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that…
- The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I…
- Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out…
- A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because…
- The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour…
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
- Misery is a match that never goes out.
- I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of…
- I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon…
- 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…
- Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
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