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Thomas Huxley | great

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

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Thomas Huxley | great

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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Thomas Huxley | great

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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Thomas Huxley | great

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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Thomas Huxley | freedom

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

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Thomas Huxley | freedom

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

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Thomas Huxley | freedom

Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.

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Thomas Huxley | fear

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

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Thomas Huxley | fear

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

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Thomas Huxley | faith

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

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