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Up Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- 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…
- As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in…
- I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms,…
- 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…
- The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there…
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
- 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…
- No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
- 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…
- The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
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