Robert Boyle vs. Thomas Henry Huxley
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Robert Boyle
1842 – 1903
Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
"I consider, that as generally as Chymists are wont to appeal to Experience, and as confidently as they use to instance the several substances separated by the F…"
Thomas Henry Huxley
1825 – 1895
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
"I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject to the production of proof that physiological species may be produced by selective breeding; just as a physi…"
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