Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. — Thomas Huxley Messiah Copy Share Image
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. — Thomas Huxley Books Copy Share Image
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. — Thomas Huxley Checkmate Copy Share Image
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless… — Thomas Huxley Doctrine Copy Share Image
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. — 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great… — Thomas Huxley Classroom Copy Share Image
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — 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
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! — Thomas Huxley Beautiful Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley After death Copy Share Image
No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so… — Thomas Huxley Character 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 Existence Copy Share Image
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has… — Thomas Huxley Animal Copy Share Image
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the… — Thomas Huxley Art Copy Share Image
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so… — 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 Analogies Copy Share Image
I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to… — Thomas Huxley Authority 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 Absolutes Copy Share Image
I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the… — Thomas Huxley Antipathy Copy Share Image
The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Abyss Copy Share Image
“For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.” — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. — Thomas Huxley Brother Copy Share Image
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. — Thomas Huxley Mankind Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley Age Copy Share Image
