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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

~Thomas Huxley

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

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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

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

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: May 4th, 1825

Died: June 29th, 1895

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