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“Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.”

Quote by Thomas Huxley

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

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The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

This compilation includes Huxley's influential writings on science, ethics, and society, showcasing his contributions to the fields of biology and evolutionary theory. 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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“If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.”

Ifs Men Play Wanted Universe Justice Fellows Possession Every Man Damage Possessed Interfere Fellow Man

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.”

Men Mind Different Real Speak Views Talking Subjects Method Conviction Point Of View Clearing Real Power Different Points Of View

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.”

Source: Aphorisms and reflections

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”

Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays

“As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.”

Kind Character Process Natural Tree Creation Development Evolution Seeds Eggs Intervention Fowl

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.”

Doe War Individual Chance Animal Land Evolution Plant Species Ships Reaching Expenses Crew Swimmer

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.”

Thinking Way Want Made Stills Philosophy Certain Fall Deals Horse Aim Practicals Thinker Preaching Multitudes Shallow Rapids Promotion Stalking

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.”

Men Needs Believe Facts I Believe Ignorance Rewards Seeking Punishment Inevitable Afterlife Compensation Reward And Punishment

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Reason Expression Method Human Mind Investigation Precise Scientific Method

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”

Made Reason Process Animal Results Mark Shoes Affair Bones Faculty Mystical Fragments Identical Policemen Detectives Scientific Method Burglars Extinct Animals

Author:Thomas Huxley