I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. — Thomas Huxley Failure Copy Share Image
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” — Thomas Huxley Medicine Copy Share Image
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. — Thomas Huxley Books 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 true purpose of education is to teach you to do the thing that needs to be done,when it needs to be… — Thomas Huxley Education Copy Share Image
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was… — Thomas Huxley Divine Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify… — Thomas Huxley Belief Copy Share Image
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them… — Thomas Huxley Absurd Copy Share Image
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something. — Thomas Huxley Crisis Copy Share Image
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. — Thomas Huxley Friendship Copy Share Image
Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet,… — 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
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we… — Thomas Huxley Belief Copy Share Image
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my… — Thomas Huxley Ambitious Copy Share Image
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his… — Thomas Huxley Analogies Copy Share Image
It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as… — Thomas Huxley Attraction 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 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 am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy… — Thomas Huxley Ants Copy Share Image
Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley Age Copy Share Image
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. — Thomas Huxley Education Copy Share Image
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. — Thomas Huxley Imagination Copy Share Image
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. — Thomas Huxley Economics Copy Share Image
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
