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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Thomas Huxley
Giving, Faces, Facts
Nature Vol. 149 (p. 291), January-June 1942.

Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.

Thomas Huxley
Running, Knowledge, Giving
Thomas Henry Huxley (1873). “Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S”, p.7

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

What men need is, as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for action; give them more and it may become injurious. One knows people who are as heavy and stupid from undigested learning .

Thomas Huxley
Stupid, Men, Giving
"A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations".

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