Quote by Thomas Huxley
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always t

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. – Thomas Huxley

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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. – Thomas Huxley

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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. – Thomas Huxley

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mothers womb a fanatic heart. – William Butler Yeats

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