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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Born: May 03 1825

Died: 2828 06 18951895

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In 1825, Thomas Henry Huxley was born in England. Huxley coined the term "agnostic" . Huxley defined agnosticism as a method, "the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle . . . the axiom that every man should be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him." Huxley elaborated: "In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without any other consideration. And negatively, in matters of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable" .

Huxley received his medical degree from Charing Cross School of Medicine, becoming a physiologist, and was awarded many other honorary degrees. He spent his youth exploring science, especially zoology and anatomy, lecturing on natural history, and writing for scientific publications. He was president of the Royal Society, and was elected to the London School Board in 1870, where he championed a number of common-sense reforms. Huxley earned the nickname "Darwin's Bulldog" when he debated Darwin's On the Origin of Species with Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in Oxford in 1860. When Wilberforce asked him which side of his family contained the ape, Huxley famously replied that he would prefer to descend from an ape than a human being who used his intellect "for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into grave scientific discussion." Thereafter, Huxley devoted his time to the defense of science over religion. His essays included "Agnosticism and Christianity" . His three rationalist grandsons were Sir Julian Huxley, a biologist, novelist Aldous Huxley, and Andrew Huxley, co-winner of a 1963 Nobel Prize. Huxley, appropriately, received the Darwin Medal in 1894. D. 1895.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Origin of Species

The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume V: Victorian Prose and Poetry

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

Yeast

On A Piece Of Chalk

Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals

Evolution and Ethics: And Other Essays

Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays

William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood

Man's Place in Nature

An Elementary Treatise on Human Physiology: On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History: The Mind and Brain: Series E Physiological Psychology

Hume

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002

Collected Essays: Discourses, Biological And Geological

Freedom in Science and Teaching

Darwiniana: Essays ( Collected Essays of Thomas H. Huxley)

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068

On the Physical Basis of Life.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Insomnia Collection Vol. 002