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I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. ↗

— 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 superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. ↗

— 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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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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