Henry Huxley

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    Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    By weaker accents, what’s your praise
    When Philomel her voice doth raise?
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

    After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)