... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.
Thomas HuxleyEvery philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
Thomas HuxleyIf a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
Thomas Huxley