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Jun 25, 2024 · Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, educator, and advocate of agnosticism (he coined the word). Huxley was a vocal supporter of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary naturalism, and his organizational efforts, public lectures, and writing helped elevate the place of science in modern society.
Jun 25, 2024 · Their mouthpiece was the Reader—in which Huxley, answering Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli’s criticism of Darwinism, notoriously claimed that science would achieve “domination over the whole realm of the intellect”—and Nature (founded in 1869 by Huxley’s team).
Jun 25, 2024 · Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (born November 22, 1917, Hampstead, London, England—died May 30, 2012, Cambridge) was an English physiologist, cowinner (with Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles) of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
4 days ago · What fascinated me most about the life of Thomas Henry Huxley was that in 1864 he launched The X Club. This club was an elite and exclusive club for himself and some of his like minded Royal Society friends. The aim of the group is vaguely described as being “to advance the cause of science”. The nine members of The X Club were as follows:
3 days ago · Huxley was a celebrated English writer and philosopher, perhaps best known today as author of the sci-fi dystopian classic Brave New World (1932). Born into the British establishment, he was to make his life in the U.S., moving to California, mainly because of its climate.
4 days ago · One of the first and most important naturalists to be convinced by Origin of the reality of evolution was the British anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley.
Jul 2, 2024 · Thomas H. Huxley. Publication date 1897 Publisher D. Appleton and Company Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size ...
