托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎/Thomas Henry Huxley
托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎（1825—1895），英國著名的生物學家、作家，同時是達爾文的合作者，達爾文學說的主要傳播者。生於教師家庭，醫學出身，解剖學方麵主張歸納法，曾到大洋洲考察。多次為達爾文的進化論做出色辯護。寫過許多科普文章，包括《人類在自然界的位置》、《生命的物質基礎》等，擴大了進化論的影響。此外，他的《自傳》文學價值很高。
I beg leave to thank you for the extremely kind and appreciative manner in which you have received the toast of Science. It is the more grateful to me to hear that toast proposed in an assembly of this kind, because I have noticed of late years a great and growing tendency among those who were once jestingly said to have been born in a prescientific age to look upon science as an invading and aggressive force, which if it had its own way would oust from the universe all other pursuits. I think there are many persons who look upon this new birth of our times as a sort of monster rising out of the sea of modern thought with the purpose of devouring the Andromeda of art. And now and then a Perseus, equipped with the shoes of swiftness of the ready writer, with the cap of invisibility of the editorial article, and it may be with the Medusahead of vituperation, shows himself ready to try conclusions with the scientific dragon. Sir, I hope that Perseus will think better of it; first, for his own sake, because the creature is hard of head, strong of jaw, and for some time past has shown a great capacity for going over and through whatever comes in his way; and secondly, for the sake of justice, for I assure you, of my own personal knowledge that if left alone, the creature is a very debonair and gentle monster. As for the Andromeda of art, he has the tenderest respect for that lady, and desires nothing more than to see her happily settled and annually producing a flock of such charming children as those we see about us.