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Thomas Henry Huxley Berühmte Zitate

„Die Unsterblichkeit des Menschen streite ich weder ab noch bestätige ich sie. Ich sehe keinen Grund, daran zu glauben, habe aber auf der anderen Seite keine Möglichkeit, sie als falsch zu beweisen.“

Thomas Henry Huxley

Brief an Charles Kingsley, 23. September 1860
Original engl.: "I neither deny nor affirm the immortality of man. I see no reason for believing in it, but, on the other hand, I have no means of disproving it."

„Meine Aufgabe ist es, meine Hoffnungen zu lehren, sich den Tatsachen anzupassen, und nicht, die Tatsachen dazu zu zwingen, mit meinen Hoffnungen übereinzustimmen.“

Thomas Henry Huxley

Brief an Charles Kingsley, 23. September 1860
Original engl.: "My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations."

„Die große Tragödie der Wissenschaft - die Erledigung einer wunderschönen Hypothese durch eine häßliche Tatsache.“

Thomas Henry Huxley

Presidential Address at the British Association for 1870, "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (Collected Essays, vol. 8)
Original engl.: "The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Thomas Henry Huxley: Zitate auf Englisch

“Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year, has its application to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”

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"Joseph Priestley" (1874) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/Priest.html <br class="br">1870s

“Lamarck, sagacious as many of his views were, mingled them with so much that was crude and even absurd, as to neutralize the benefit which his originality might have effected had he been a more sober and cautious thinker…”

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Quelle: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 125

“Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley

1860s, Reply to Charles Kingsley (1860)

“It is quite true that, to the best of my judgment, the argumentation which applies to brutes holds equally good of men; and, therefore, that all states of consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain-substance. It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is no proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of change in the motion of the matter of the organism. If these positions are well based, it follows that our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which takes place automatically in the organism; and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act.”

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1870s, On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (1874)

“If the brutes have consciousness and no souls, then it is clear that, in them, consciousness is a direct function of material changes; while, if they possess immaterial subjects of consciousness, or souls, then, as consciousness is brought into existence only as the consequence of molecular motion of the brain, it follows that it is an indirect product of material changes. The soul stands related to the body as the bell of a clock to the works, and consciousness answers to the sound which the bell gives out when it is struck.”

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1870s, On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (1874)

“The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their body simply as a collateral product of its working, and to be as completely without any power of modifying that working as the steam-whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery. Their volition, if they have any, is an emotion indicative of physical changes, not a cause of such changes.”

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1870s, On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (1874)

“From the point of view of the moralist the animal world is on about the same level as a gladiator's show. The creatures are fairly well treated, and set to fight—whereby the strongest, the swiftest and the cunningest live to fight another day. The spectator has no need to turn his thumbs down, as no quarter is given.”

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[The Struggle for Existence: A Programme, The Nineteenth Century, 23, February 1888, 161–180, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0012287587&view=1up&seq=173] (quote from p. 163)
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