Quote by Thomas Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. – Thomas Huxley

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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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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. – Thomas Huxley

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Happiness
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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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History
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. – Anton Chekhov

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The faith I was born into formed me. – Huston Smith

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Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. – George McGovern

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I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think whats new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. – Gordon Brown

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When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? – Sydney J. Harris

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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Dont trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. – Charles Dickens

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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. – Ambrose Bierce

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The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. – Chinese Proverb

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