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“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”

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Thomas Huxley

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Science

Thomas Huxley

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Power

Thomas Huxley

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Money

Thomas Huxley

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Business