I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fash…

Thomas Huxley
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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.401, Cambridge University Press
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ✨ Biogenesis and Abiogenesis (1870)
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ✨ 'Collected Essays' vol. 3 (1895) 'On Elementary Instruction in Physiology' (written 1877)
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.310, Cambridge University Press
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ✨ The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' (1880)

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.401, Cambridge University Press

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