Thomas Henry Huxley Quote

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.


One of a series of exchanges when Richard Owen repeated generally repudiated claims about the Gorilla brain in a Royal Institution lecture. Athenaeum (13 April 1861) p. 498; Browne Vol 2, p. 159.


Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.