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Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

«The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents»
«The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction»
«It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions»
«The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying»
«It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.»
«I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.»
«There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.»
«I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of `agnostic'.»
«The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist»
«The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes»

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