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“ The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ”

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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

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Thomas Huxley Morality Ethics

If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should close instantly with the offer.

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Thomas Huxley Morality Ethics

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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Thomas Huxley Science Technology

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

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