The man of science has learned to believe...... Quote by "Thomas H. Huxley"

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
— Thomas H. Huxley Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley

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Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.
— Thomas H. Huxley Lay Sermons

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The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
— Thomas H. Huxley Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays

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