What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.
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A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.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
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
Thomas Henry Huxley
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
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
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.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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