Thomas Huxley

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Meaning #1: English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
  Synonyms: Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley

Quotes:

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly."

"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."

"A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words."

"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."

"We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it."

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