Huxley

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    Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    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)

    Demoniac possession is mythical; but the faculty of being possessed, more less completely, by an idea is probably the fundamental condition of what is called genius, whether it show itself in the saint, the artist, or the man of science.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)