Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
What men need is, as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for action; give them more and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair"… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
