Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes on Perception

4 quotes

  1. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

  2. For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

    #47 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
  3. 'I think his tone is much too vehement'

  4. 'I believed that he was the greatest man I was ever likely to meet, and I believe that all the more firmly today'

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