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Thomas Huxley

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

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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."

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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."

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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

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"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

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"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."

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"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."

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"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."

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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

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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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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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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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"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
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"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
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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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"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
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