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Quote by Thomas Huxley
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. – Thomas Huxley

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

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

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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. – Thomas Huxley

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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. Theres something very powerful about finding snow in summer. – Andy Goldsworthy

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. – Marie Curie

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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. – Aeschylus

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Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. – George W. Bush

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