托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎/Thomas Henry Huxley
托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎（1825—1895），英国著名的生物学家、作家，同时是达尔文的合作者，达尔文学说的主要传播者。生于教师家庭，医学出身，解剖学方面主张归纳法，曾到大洋洲考察。多次为达尔文的进化论做出色辩护。写过许多科普文章，包括《人类在自然界的位置》、《生命的物质基础》等，扩大了进化论的影响。此外，他的《自传》文学价值很高。
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.