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Quote by Thomas Huxley
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to be

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – 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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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. – Thomas Huxley

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Huxley

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History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. – Karl Marx

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. – Charles Darwin

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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856

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