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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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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. – Thomas Huxley

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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To insult someone we call him bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. – Isaac Asimov

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome mans insecurity before himself and before nature. – Albert Einstein

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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. – Charles A. Lindbergh, Life, 1967 December 22nd

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Ive probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. – Jacqueline Bisset

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