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“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”

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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.

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Thomas Huxley

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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Thomas Huxley

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

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