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Quote by Thomas Huxley
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Ed

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. – Thomas Huxley

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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. – Thomas Huxley

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

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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. – Thomas Huxley

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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. – Noam Chomsky

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