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"Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains."
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"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, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions."
— Thomas Henry Huxley, b. 1825View →
"The man-like Apes... have certain characters of structure and of distribution in common."
— Thomas Henry Huxley, b. 1825View →
"The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
— Thomas Henry Huxley, b. 1825View →
"So far from a gradual progress towards perfection forming any necessary part of the Darwinian creed, it appears to us that it is perfectly consistent with indefinite persistence in one state, or with a gradual retrogression."
— Thomas Henry Huxley, b. 1825View →
"From until 1885 Huxley's labours extended over the widest field of biology and philosophy ever covered by any naturalist with the single exception of Aristotle."
— Thomas Henry Huxley, b. 1825View →