Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
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- In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
- Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
- My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
- It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.