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Accuracy is the foundation of everything else.

Thomas Henry Huxley
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas Henry Huxley
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley
He had one eye upon fact, and the other on Genesis.

Thomas Henry Huxley
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

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Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

Thomas Henry Huxley
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Thomas Henry Huxley
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

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Spencer's idea of a tragedy is a deduction killed by a fact.

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A world of facts lies outside and f beyond the world of words.

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Those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact...

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Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

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I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches.

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A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

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There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

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Assertion which outstrips evidence is not only a blunder but a crime.

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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

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Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

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Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt.

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Whatever happens, science may bide her time in patience and in confidence.

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The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

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

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

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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

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That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

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

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