Thomas Huxley’s scientific contributions

... He was lauded by later geologists and palaeontologists, particularly in France, for his early identification of several important principles. Buffon and Huxley both cited Palissy as a pioneer in the study of fossil organisms (Buffon, 1797;Huxley, 1897). It has been suggested that the accuracy, impact, and importance of some of his contributions have been overstated, relatively little-known as they were for a century after his death in the Bastille, imprisoned for his Huguenot beliefs (Plaziat, 2011). ...

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The earliest-published recognition of a trace fossil and its producer

... As Thomas Huxley wrote: 'The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification'. 3 They resisted the established authority of the Anglican Church and the aristocracy, and sought to establish the men of science as moral as well as intellectual authorities. Their claims about the authority of science were also an attempt by some to professionalize the practice of science, so that the new ideas, displacing traditional religious knowledge, also worked to produce a new professional social class. ...

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 2

... As for 'conditions of existence,' this expression traced to Cuvier is used by Darwin [1872] on a par with 'conditions of life' in place of 'environment.' Soon after the first edition of "On the Origin of Species…" has appeared, Huxley in his special work has definitely made 'conditions of existence' a synonym of 'environment': "By Conditions of Existence I mean two things, -there are conditions which are furnished by the physical, the inorganic world, and there are conditions of existence which are furnished by the organic world" (Huxley [1894], p. 433). Speaking about conditions which are furnished by the inorganic and organic world (climatetemperature, moisture, -food, number and kind of living beings -'rivals,' 'enemies,' 'helpers'), he, as a matter of fact, was classifying ecological factors, i.e. the components of an environment. ...

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Kolomiytsev N.P. and Poddubnaya N.Ya.The Origin of Life as a Result of Changing the Evolutionary Mechanism. // Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum, 2007, v. 100, N. 1, pp. 11–16.

... Even though Huxley (1863) and Darwin (1871) cemented Linnaeus's grouping of Homo sapiens within the order Primates, human anatomists and paleontologists have maintained a separation of humans and their fossil relatives from this larger evolutionary group in large part through a distinctly anthropocentric anatomical lexicon. ...

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The nasal region of the ~417 ka Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) Hominin: New terminology and implications for later human evolution

... For the scientist is simply the individual that takes great care in her observations, records them, consults the observations of others, and attempts to systematize them. As T.H. Huxley [38] has claimed, "science is nothing but trained and organized common sense…." Even Einstein [25] maintains that "physics is nothing but a refinement of everyday thinking"-his counterintuitive Relativity Theory notwithstanding. ...

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Aligning with ideal values: a proposal for anchoring AI in moral expertise