"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker."
-Thomas Huxley
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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.“
-Thomas Huxley
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"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
-Thomas Huxley
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"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
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"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
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"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth."
-Thomas Huxley
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"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."
-Thomas Huxley
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"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
-John Cusack
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"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop."
-Willie Stargell
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
-Alfred Austin
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
-Charles Eastman
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