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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

— Thomas Henry Huxley Misattributed

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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge (1866)

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature (1863)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Technical Education (1877)

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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