Thomas Henry Cormode

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    Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)