Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. — Thomas Huxley Education Copy Share Image
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford. — Thomas Huxley Charity Copy Share Image
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed. — Thomas Huxley Bible 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
Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless. — Thomas Huxley Art Copy Share Image
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams. — Thomas Huxley Accomplishment Copy Share Image
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley Absolute certainty Copy Share Image
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. — Thomas Huxley Bible 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 Comfort Copy Share Image
As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from… — Thomas Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Authority Copy Share Image
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to… — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a… — Thomas Huxley Apes 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
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows… — Thomas Huxley Agnosticism Copy Share Image
Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Huxley Agnosticism Copy Share Image
It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Agnosticism Copy Share Image
Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. — Thomas Huxley Life Copy Share Image
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley Injustices Copy Share Image
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium. — Thomas Huxley Equilibrium Copy Share Image
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or… — Thomas Huxley Delusion Copy Share Image
My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Common sense Copy Share Image
