4 Quotes & Sayings By T H Huxley

Thomas Huxley was an English biologist and philosopher, who was a proponent of evolutionary theory and evolutionary ethics. He founded the school of thought known as "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", which has since been widely discredited.

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The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to claim a little more land. T. H. Huxley
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Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic. T. H. Huxley
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I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low. T. H. Huxley