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“Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.”

Quote by Thomas Huxley

Book:Collected essays

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Collected essays

This book brings together a diverse range of essays, covering a wide array of topics and perspectives from various authors. 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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“Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.”

Ifs Life Matter Seems Life Is Streets Walking Crosses Opposites Obstacles Fewer Crowded Life Is Like Pavement Getting Along Crowded Streets

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.”

World Book Knowledge Study Source Letters Latter Life Learning

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.”

Ifs Giving Should Running Chance Knowledge Genius Beats Guidance Foe Hollow Rockets Chances Are Explosives Gunpowder

Book:Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S

Source: Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S

“Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.”

Men Should Believe Reason Facts Eye Strong Sex Women Justice Loss Careers Seeing Policy Capacity Males Average Equality Foolish Vigor Public Policy

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.”

Want Has Beens Stills Ideas Spiritual Law Science Found Natural Morality Comfort Foundation Lays Seeking Driven Craving

Book:Huxley's Autobiography and Essays

Source: Huxley's Autobiography and Essays

“Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.”

May Science Evil Voice Eternal Blessed Rage Secure Being Blessed

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”

Men Science Nature Natural Minutes Effects Objects Ten Rain Mere Sand Salt Grain Showers Puzzles Wisest Grains Of Sand Appliances Grain Of Salt

Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”

Ifs May Book Starting Ignorant Observation Operations Faculty Quantity Definite Observing

Book:American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology

Source: American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology

“In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.”

Littles Philosophy Chance Sacrifice Temples Laboratory Sanctuary Experimentation Admission Scientific Method Purification

Book:T. H. Huxley on Education

Source: T. H. Huxley on Education

“The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.”

Facts Government Form Politics Existence Society Masters Depends Members Claims Exclusive

Author:Thomas Huxley