Thomas Huxley

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.