The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome — not by favo… - Thomas Henry Huxley

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is
to reclaim a little more land.

A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there was an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them with aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not.