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Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

«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.»
«Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.»
«Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.»
«Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic»
«It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors»
«If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley (Biologist) | About: Knowledge | Keywords: out of danger
«If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes»
«The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley (Biologist) | About: Science | Keywords: hypothesis, slaying
«Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth»
«No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical»

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