“It invited new ways of thinking.”

A man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’.

With science’s truths the only accessible ones.

Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.

Never ‘did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little’.

Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.

It demanded a new rationale for belief.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion.

a world of evolution ‘and unchanging causation’.

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I’m lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

We are constantly invited to be what we are.