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bb119d4	The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrum..	metaphor history science illimitable inexplicability principia solidity origin-of-species possessions intellectual business biology charles-darwin goal justification darwin infinite knowledge ocean isaac-newton newton unknown	Thomas Henry Huxley
1279e8f	In fact a favourite problem of is--Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.	shakespeare problem future science faust favorite forces johann-wolfgang-von-goethe john-tyndall physics tyndall hamlet goethe william-shakespeare	Thomas Henry Huxley
0cbaa7a	With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical and intellectual criticism of theology once more recommenced, and arrived at a temporary resting-place in the confessions of the various reformed Protestant sects in the sixteenth century; almost all of which, as soon as they were strong enough, began to persecute those who carried criticism beyond..	criticism science baruch-spinoza d-holbach denis-diderot diderot gotthold-ephraim-lessing gotthold-lessing jean-jacque-rousseau jean-meslier lessing meslier paul-henri-d-holbach thomas-hobbes hobbes rousseau protestant spinoza science-vs-religion civilization geologists europe science-and-religion persecution descartes galileo galileo-galilei rene-descartes	Thomas Henry Huxley
02005dc	Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.		Thomas Henry Huxley
35b524c	The man-like Apes... have certain characters of structure and of distribution in common.		Thomas Henry Huxley
deedb73	The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.		Thomas Henry Huxley
f0a9453	The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.		Thomas Henry Huxley
6ae4f6e	I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches.		Thomas Henry Huxley
71c7333	That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.		Thomas Henry Huxley
202163f	All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.		Thomas Henry Huxley
ded6624	The great end of life is not knowledge but action.		Thomas Henry Huxley
b51046a	Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.		Thomas Henry Huxley
1e59522	Science ... commits suicide when it adopts a creed.		Thomas Henry Huxley
ed94d42	Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.		Thomas Henry Huxley
17e9619	God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.		Thomas Henry Huxley
cb04591	Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt.		Thomas Henry Huxley

bb119d4

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrum..

metaphor history science illimitable inexplicability principia solidity origin-of-species possessions intellectual business biology charles-darwin goal justification darwin infinite knowledge ocean isaac-newton newton unknown

Thomas Henry Huxley

1279e8f

In fact a favourite problem of is--Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

shakespeare problem future science faust favorite forces johann-wolfgang-von-goethe john-tyndall physics tyndall hamlet goethe william-shakespeare

Thomas Henry Huxley

0cbaa7a

With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical and intellectual criticism of theology once more recommenced, and arrived at a temporary resting-place in the confessions of the various reformed Protestant sects in the sixteenth century; almost all of which, as soon as they were strong enough, began to persecute those who carried criticism beyond..