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Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact.
The Struggle for Existence in Human Society (1888). Collected Essays IX (195) The vast and varied procession of events, which we call Nature, affords a sublime spectacle and an inexhaustible wealth of attractive problems to the speculative observer.
Science and Culture Thomas Henry Huxley S IX 1 years ago, as some of my present hearers may remember, I had the privilege of addressing a large assemblage of the inhabitants of this city, who had gathered together to do honor to the memory of their famous townsman, Joseph Priestley; and, if any satisfaction attaches to posthumous glory, we may hope that the manes of the burnt-out philosopher.
T.H. Huxley’s Hideous Revolution In Science by Paul Glumaz June 2015. This article appears in the June 12, 2015 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. (PDF version of this article)Introduction. June 4—A hideous revolution took place in the sciences and in our culture during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, which had the aim of remaking the self-conception of the human species.
According to Huxley's biographer in the Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, the essays which represent him at his best are those published in 1868. They are A Piece of Chalk, A Liberal Education, and On the Physical Basis of Life.
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling.
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The 1860 Oxford evolution debate took place at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England, on 30 June 1860, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated, including Thomas Henry Huxley, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, Benjamin Brodie, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Robert FitzRoy.
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Huxley served as the diligent and unpaid marketer of the reclusive Darwin ’s ideas. With his gift for words, Huxley’s essays on natural selection helped the theory of evolution gain new supporters. Nature picks the best of the struggling individuals of a species, he explained.
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Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays: By Thomas Henry Huxley - Illustrated (Kindle Edition) Published April 11th 2017 Kindle Edition, 173 pages.
On some fixed points in British ethnology (187l) -- VI. On the Aryan question (1890). The first three essays were published in 1863 as Man's Place in Nature; the other three essays were previously published variously in Fortnightly Review, Contemporary Review, Critiques and Addresses, and Nineteenth Century.
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895, Naturalists -- England, Naturalists -- England Publisher New York: Appleton Collection newyorkpubliclibrary; americana Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor New York Public Library Language English.
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Bibliography: p. xxxii Autobiography.--On the advisableness ofimproving natural knowledge.--The method of scientific investigation.--Prolegomena.--The struggle for existence in human society.--Science and culture.--A liberal education.--On science and art in relation to.