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Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes: For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.
         

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.


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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.



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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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Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.



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