![By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.](/assets/img/quote-photos/by-profession-a-biologist-thomas-henry-huxley-covered-in-fact-the-whole-field.jpg)
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