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Quote by Thomas Huxley
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. – 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 great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – 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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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. – C. S. Lewis

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Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. – David Rockefeller

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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. – Eddie Vedder

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