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

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

Thomas Huxley
Purpose, Credit, Moral
Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Thomas Huxley
Ocean, Sea, Purpose
Thomas Henry Huxley (1917). “Method and Results: Essays”

It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.

Thomas Huxley
Law, Looks, Purpose
"The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century" by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1889.

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