Creative Quotations from . . .
Thomas Henry Huxley
(1825-1895) born on May 04
English biologist. He was an advocate of Darwin's natural selection theory and named the phylum Coelenterata (Jellyfish).
 
   
F
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body."

R
"Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow."
A
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
N
"Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in. . ."
K
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""On Descartes' `Discourse Touching the method of Using One's Reason Rightly and of Seeking Scientific Truth'" (1870; published in Collected Essays, vol. 1, 1893)."
R: "In "A New Dictionary of Quotations," by H.L. Mencken, 1942."
A: ""Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.""
N: ""Geological Reform," (1869; published in Collected Essays, vol. 8, 1894)."
K: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."



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