It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
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This seems to be one of the many cases in which the admitted accuracy of mathematical processes is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.Thomas Henry Huxley
The known is finite, the unknown infinite intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
Thomas Henry Huxley
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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 enter.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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