Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing, London, Middlesex, England back in 1825 to George and Rachel. He left school at the age of 10. He was determined to get an education. He read all the books he could. In his teen years he had learned German, Latin and Greek where he read Aristotle in the original language.
At 16 he entered Sydenham College, the school specialized in anatomy. A year later he excelled at the school, when he was admitted to study at Charing Cross Hospital. In 1845, he published his first scientific paper. At 20 he won a gold medal for anatomy and physiology. That same year being in debt he joined the Royal Navy, where he was made Assistant Surgeon. He resigned from the navy in 1854, when he became a Professor of Natural History at the Royal School of Mines. He died in 1895, he was 70.
What you may not know about Thomas is that in 1869, he used the term “agnosticism” to frame the nature of claims in terms of what is knowable and what is not.
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