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“Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?”

Quote by Thomas Huxley

Book:The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings

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The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings

This book compiles a selection of essays and articles by the renowned Victorian scientist and philosopher T. H. Huxley, offering a glimpse into his intellectual contributions across various disciplines. more

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Thomas Huxley, a British biologist, was a staunch supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution. Renowned for his research in comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and philosophy, Huxley made significant contributions to the field of biology. He had a profound influence on science, not only through his support of Darwin's theory of evolution but also through his role as a science popularizer and advocate for science education. more

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“I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

People Ifs World I Can Purpose Found Moral Economy Exercise Benefits Intellectual Weight Importance Clever Practicals Great Men Tenacity Cleverness Frugality

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.”

Made I Can Dies Argument Suicide Mediums Demonstration Crossings Spiritualism Guinea Sweepers

Author:Thomas Huxley

“If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.”

Ifs Matter States Conditions Evolution One Time Globes Hypothesis

Author:Thomas Huxley

“For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.”

World Looks Reality Turns Sea Share Weakness Rounds Awful Ministers Enterprise Necks Thrown Tied Cover Ups

Book:Readings from Huxley

Source: Readings from Huxley

“The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.”

Years Character Seems Lasts Growth Extraordinary Spread Fifty Department Physical Science

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.”

Men Doe Important Matter Highest Capacity Proportion Latter Lowest Apes

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.”

Men Might Would Be Animal Results He Man Series Muscles Comparison Fabric Apes Selected Gorillas

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than the differences... be the differences between the hand and foot of Man and those of the Gorilla what they may the differences between those of the Gorilla and those of the lower Apes are much greater.”

Men May Important Hands Differences Greater Feet Apes Resemblance Gorillas Hands And Feet

Author:Thomas Huxley