Quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley

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win, although for the student his scientific work may always live.

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of Darwinism, or as the man who worsted Bishop Wilberforce at Oxford.

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in itself and of a size that can be carried in the pocket.

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their pure beauty of lucid English writing.

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one pure white light of holy truth.

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am most grateful to our son Leonard Huxley for weeding out the

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it through the press for me.

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uglier features is stripped off.

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Aphorisms And Reflections

discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.

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Aphorisms And Reflections

faith the one unpardonable sin.

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faith, but by verification.

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up for lack of motherwit, either in science or in practical life.

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powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

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only in one or two of them.

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conservation of energy; the third is the doctrine of evolution.

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Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as

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Catholicism _minus_ Christianity.

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shadow of my own mind's throwing?

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hunger with the east wind of authority.

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itself, as an excuse for idleness and indifference.

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deceiver cannot make them otherwise.

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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible.

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unconscious and mechanical.

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