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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Birthday: May 4, 1825

Death: June 29, 1895

Educated At: University College London, Charing Cross Hospital

Nationality: United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland

Occupations: Linguist, Paleontologist, Carcinologist, Translator, Zoologist

Spouse: Henrietta Anne Heathorn Huxley

Total quotes: 1

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of Newton's ‘Principia’, is Darwin's ‘Origin of Species.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley, Man's Place In Nature

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy

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