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Arzt, Zoologe (England, 1825 - 1895).

Thomas Henry Huxley · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Thomas Henry Huxley wäre heute 198 Jahre, 11 Monate, 24 Tage oder 72.678 Tage alt.

Geboren am 04.05.1825 in Ealing/London
Gestorben am 29.06.1895 in London
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

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

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• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

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• It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

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• It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

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• It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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• It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

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• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

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• No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.

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• Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

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• Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

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• Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ fromthose of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

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• Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.

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• States are made up of a considerable number of the ignorant and foolish, a small proportion of genuine knaves, and a sprinkling of capable and honest men, by whose efforts the former are kept in a reasonable state of guidance and the latter of repression.

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• That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

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• The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

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• The chessboard is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call laws of nature.

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• The cosmic process has no sort of relation to moral ends.

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