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The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

~Thomas Huxley

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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: May 4th, 1825

Died: June 29th, 1895

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