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The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument, and it requires to be tuned up and put in order before it can produce harmonious results.

Thomas Huxley, On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences (1854)
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The mind has not merely made a discovery of external fact; it has altered its own nature. It has become capable of rising above the present and the particular to the conception of law, of growth, of progress.

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The mind, once stretched by a new experience, never returns to its original dimensions.

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