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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
— Thomas Huxley Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
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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.
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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
— Thomas Huxley
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