Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
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Thomas Henry Huxley (76)
Birth: | 4th May, 1825 |
Death: | 29th June, 1895 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Biologist |
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