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“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”

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Thomas Huxley

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Wisdom

Thomas Huxley

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Knowledge

Thomas Huxley

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Faith

Thomas Huxley

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Nature