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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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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 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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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley

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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh, History of the World

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. – Henry Adams

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