Thomas Henry Huxley
Biologist and science advocate, 1825-1895
Cited as Huxley. — 12 quotations
Agamogenetic
All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock.
Back
The chalk cliffs which back the beach.
Chorology
Its distribution or chorology.
Dermic
Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified.
Eon
The eons of geological time.
Exuviate
There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year.
Hither
To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday.
Physicism
Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science.
Purposive
It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive than these.
Saltation
We greatly suspect that nature does make considerable jumps in the way of variation now and then, and that these saltations give rise to some of the gaps which appear to exist in the series of known forms.
Sweeper
It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy.
Synchrony
Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony.