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

Other quotes by Thomas Huxley

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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Fear
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. – Thomas Huxley

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Politics
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The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. – Thomas Huxley

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Knowledge
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Secretly, Im a real big nerd. Id rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. – Sprague Grayden

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History

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. – William Hague

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History

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. – Jessamyn West

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History

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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History

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