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Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

Thomas Huxley
Fire, Doubt, Atheism
"T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator". Book by Cyril Bibby, p. 257, 1950.

Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.

Thomas Huxley
Giving, Doubt, Unqualified
Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.322

I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.

Thomas Huxley
Believe, Doubt, Atheism
Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.358, University of Georgia Press

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