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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.”

201. “There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.”

202. “It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one’s own mind.”

203. “Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one’s own mind.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.”

204. “Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.”

205. “The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.”

206. “Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.”

207. “What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.”

208. “There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God.”

209. “Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”

210. “The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.”

211. “Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.”

212. “People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.”

213. “I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.”

214. “Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.”

215. “It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “If then the question is put to me whether I would rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.”

216. “If then the question is put to me whether I would rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.”

217. “My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one’s own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.”

218. “There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one’s own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley Quote: “Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.”

219. “Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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