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LGRamos8: The great end of life is not knowledge but action. --- Thomas Henry Huxley

florianesnault: No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. By: Thomas Huxley

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cyberalgo: “The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.” —Thomas Huxley

cyberalgo: “I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.” —Thomas Huxley

welfordwrites: 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 Natures. The player on the other side is hidden from us. Thomas Henry Huxley

welfordwrites: The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence. Thomas Henry Huxley

b2l_History: The definitive biography of one of the finest writers of the twentieth century, who was admired by -- and in many cases friends with -- some of the biggest literary names of the era: Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Martha Gellhorn...

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

billybragg: For those still in doubt about why Neo-Nazis turned up at Kellie-Jay Keen’s anti-trans rally in Melbourne, these images from a video they have posted make clear that they were there in support of KJK’s campaign - as their leader Thomas Sewell stated on the day

MelanieJaxn: The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley

praise_dami: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something -Thomas Henry Huxley

mcphersonsix: "The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Huxley

CerebralWisdom: Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas Huxley

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

thejerryproctor: The word only came into usage in 1869 when Thomas Huxley coined it, so there wasn't a Latin word for it. It's not a made-up classification. It's a category & you use it incorrectly. That would be like me calling you a Mormon. Hey you folks who believe in Jesus are all alike to me

wisdom2inspire_: Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation. Thomas Henry Huxley

Grim17music: The funniest thing about this is that it's actually a Thomas Huxley quote...

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

DavidCranmerUn1: editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period. Initiated by Thomas Henry Huxley, the

the1researcher1: The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley

Ladeaut: The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895 To see some really ugly facts, study the anti-scientific history of virology.

wisdom2inspire_: Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone. Thomas Henry Huxley

ramanathan_r18: “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something”. -Thomas Huxley

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

AhmedJuve812: The great end of life is not knowledge but action.,Thomas Henry Huxley,getting, going,

YDanoyan: "Try to learn a little about everything and everything about a little.” Thomas Huxley

LindaSa52244600: The great end of life is not knowledge but action.,Thomas Henry Huxley,getting, going,

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

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CandyFrank8: Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Joanna__: "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Soulecting: The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Thomas Huxley

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

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DavidCranmerUn1: interested in the Drosophila genetics work of Thomas Hunt Morgan's fly lab after undergraduate bottle washers Alfred Sturtevant and Calvin Bridges joined his biology club. In 1914, Julian Huxley offered Muller a position at the recently founded William Marsh Rice Institute, now

english_roy: “A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.” Thomas Henry Huxley A warning we should listen to today more than ever.

hoosierceb1: “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” -- Thomas Huxley

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

NuriaRIL: Learn what is true in order to do what is right. Thomas Huxley

nohate251: "The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect." Thomas Huxley FAHMAAN RULING AS RAVI

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

TrueQuotation: I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. — Thomas Huxley

tpmquote: I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.--Thomas Huxley

rgtrendsetter: In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. -Thomas Huxley RALPHGAIL ASAPaKENsiAYUMI

rgtrendsetter: The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. -Thomas Huxley RALPHGAIL ASAPaKENsiAYUMI

KenAyu_RG: My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. -Thomas Huxley RALPHGAIL ASAPaKENsiAYUMI

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

ynrocks: Learning doesn’t have to be specific - are you keen about culture, history, arts or science - ANYTHING! People who want to learn are never stagnant. A single quote that has pushed me the most Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas Huxley

AdrianOgg134: 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.,Thomas Henry Huxley,failures, mistakes,

Tearchoi5350: The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.,Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley,error, hamr, irrationality, reason, science, scientific, truth, value,

PurfectZerp7184: I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.,Thomas Huxley,Good, Man, Men ,

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

Goldma4315: Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.,Thomas Henry Huxley, Evolution and Ethics: And Other Essays,ethics,

philosophersmag: If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?--Thomas Huxley

Missingol3686: Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.,Thomas Huxley,morality, ethics,

Afteris8082: Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.,Thomas Huxley,Lie, Economy, Wisely ,

MawunyoAsima: The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Thor_2000: Books are the money of Literature but only the counters of science. - Thomas Huxley

ScottDeForrest3: Good morning friends. Take a moment for yourself today and remember that you are kind, you are important and above all else, you are loved. "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." -Thomas Huxley

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

random_phil: People on here adore Thomas Henry Huxley and i tend to disagree

AlexStearnCom: “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." — Thomas Huxley

ascendedceo: “The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” — Thomas Henry Huxley

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

schwinn3: The rest are convinced only at great effort by the lone genius or some bull-dog advocate (Thomas Huxley to Darwin). The closest I can think of is quantum physics (also our only non-deterministic, non-mechanical theory...). But was this really discovered by committee?

wisdom2inspire_: Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation. Thomas Henry Huxley

Politica_Econom: established by Thomas Huxley’s X Club and for the service of the ruling oligarchical families of Europe. George Parkin like all young Oxford men at this time, was highly influenced by this network’s ideas, and used them to justify the “natural scientific inevitability” of the

ruspeaks: After my first chess lesson today, I now understand this quote. “The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us” (Thomas Huxley)

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

0starkafterdark: Darwin himself didn't coin the term Darwinism (which would have been presumptuous of him) - that was for his disciple, English biologist Thomas Huxley, dubbed Darwin's bulldog for his advocacy of Darwin's evolutionary theory

0starkafterdark: As Black notes, the “survival of the fittest” version—the Thomas Huxley version—of Darwinism was a better account of economic conditions in Victorian England than it was of natural selection

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DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

SecondaryNode: 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." - Thomas Huxley

wisdom2inspire_: Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone. Thomas Henry Huxley

MrHustleHere: It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. —THOMAS H. HUXLEY

AThaedius: The chase 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. Thomas Henry Huxley.

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

mglearning: "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." -Thomas Huxley

670616629_mph: "[H]ow it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn, when Aladdin rubbed his lamp." -Thomas Huxley

SubtelWhisper: "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." ~ Thomas Huxley

MagDods: A hundred and sixty years ago, Thomas Huxley suggested that using vitalism to explain the origin of life is like saying the properties of water are due to its aquiosity. Inventing a new concept is not an explanation. Ted Lefroy in the Skeptic

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

Joanna__: "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

cylocyziruzu: The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas Henry Huxley

jlorts: "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." --Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

DavidCranmerUn1: government for a loss of over US$20 million. The future London in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is heavily inspired by the concept of Fordlândia. Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic, and controversialist who had often been called

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

iamemhn: «What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.» — Thomas Huxley

QcDailyQuote: Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Realman10709: "The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect." Thomas Huxley ASIM’S IV EXPOSED HYPOCRITES

walterhpierce2: This quote from Thomas Huxley fits into my Obvious Now category. To study more quote-posters from this phase of the Creative Process go to:

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

Maverick171776: presence and reading of which according to them, accurately marks a right-wing terrorist. Here is the list: — Tolkien, Aldous Huxley - Shakespeare - Orwell - Adam Smith, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbs - Edmund Burke and Thomas Carlyle

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

DreamAccelerate: "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley-

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