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Thomas Huxley

"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."

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"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."

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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."

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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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"Sand by the seashore is inestimable."

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"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."

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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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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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"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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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
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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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"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
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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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"Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother."
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"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth."
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"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
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