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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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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. – Thomas Huxley

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