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"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact." — Thomas Huxley
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"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense." — Thomas Huxley
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"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manne" — Thomas Huxley
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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a super inducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body." — Thomas Huxley
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"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes" — Thomas Huxley
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"Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth." — Thomas Huxley
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English Scientist    Freedom   

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"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued." — Thomas H. Huxley
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"Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth." — Thomas Huxley
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"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!" — Thomas Huxley
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental." — Thomas Huxley
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." — Thomas Huxley
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"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" — Thomas Huxley
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"No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical" — Thomas Huxley
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"The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable" — Thomas Huxley
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"Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them" — Thomas Huxley
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." — Thomas Huxley
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"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued" — Thomas Huxley
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"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions" — Thomas Huxley
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"The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying" — Thomas Huxley
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"It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible." — Thomas Huxley
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"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything." — Thomas Huxley
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