Huxley

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    The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)