Huxley

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    Indifference to all the refinements of life—it’s really shocking. Just Calvinism, that’s all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin’s theology.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the
    Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff of any degree of fineness; but nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat- flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)