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

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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: May 4th, 1825

Died: June 29th, 1895

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