"The child who has been taught to make……" — Thomas Huxley
"The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand."
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Thomas Huxley
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195 Quotes by Thomas Huxley
Thomas Huxley has 195 quotes on this site.
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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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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with…
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
— John Dewey
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children…
— Robin Sharma
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance…
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