Huxley

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    Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the “anticipation of Nature.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)