"Books are the money of Literature, but only……" — Thomas Huxley

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. - Thomas Huxley

"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science."

— Thomas Huxley

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195 Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Thomas Huxley has 195 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of…
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as…
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold…
There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it…
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is…
Veracity is the heart of morality.
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room…
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts…

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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