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.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.