Henry Huxley

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    “Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “As if the spring were all your own,
    What are you when the rose is blown?”
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

    “If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired that which could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)