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Quotes from On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences — Thomas Henry Huxley

1825–1895 England

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To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences (1854)

Science, is I believe, nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only so far as the guardsman’s cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields a club.

On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences (1854)

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