Quote by Thomas Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory wa

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – 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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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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History
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If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Natures part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. – Thomas Huxley

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Nature
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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. – Robert Quillen

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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. – Jules Verne

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Science

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. – Lewis Thomas

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Science

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. – James D. Watson

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Science

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When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isnt class warfare – its patriotism. – Cory Booker

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This is the story of what a Womans patience can endure, and what a Mans resolution can achieve. – Wilkie Collins

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully. – Karl Albrecht

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers

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