There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man… — 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
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will… — 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
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — 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
