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 struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. – 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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