Huxley

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    Cynical realism—it’s the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)