"Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every……" — Thomas Huxley
"Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain."
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Thomas Huxley
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195 Quotes by Thomas Huxley
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts…
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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been…
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Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not…
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Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be…
— Jerry Falwell
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It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it…
— Origen
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The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.
— Albert Sidney Johnston
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To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway?…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see…
— Che Guevara
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Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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All who surrender will be spared ; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated…
— Genghis Khan
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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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