Thomas Huxley

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

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

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

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.