{"author":"Thomas Huxley","author_id":"Thomas+Huxley","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["great","man","suffering "],"id":3882,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["brother","you","human "],"id":28027,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["beautiful","ugly "],"id":29781,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["man","long","rest "],"id":34110,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"Sit down before fact as a little child  be prepared to give up every preconceived notion  follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads  or you shall learn nothing.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["knowledge"],"id":38761,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["knowledge"],"id":69481,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["promise","prophets","many "],"id":69675,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["slavery","master","double "],"id":78767,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins  in the eyes of most people  is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["society","social"],"id":84552,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"},{"text":"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.","author":"Thomas Huxley","tags":["truth","everything","powerless "],"id":86979,"author_id":"Thomas+Huxley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}