Huxley

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    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)

    Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    “To-morrow,” Mrs. Viveash interrupted him, “will be as awful as to-day.” She breathed it like a truth from beyond the grave prematurely revealed, expiringly from her death-bed within.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)