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
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
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
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
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse. — Thomas Huxley 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
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 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
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
If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of… — Thomas Huxley Biology 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
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that… — Thomas Huxley Absurdity 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
“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or… — Thomas Huxley Aimless Copy Share Image
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure,… — Thomas Huxley Animal Copy Share Image
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — Thomas Huxley Abuse 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… — Thomas Huxley Animal 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
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would… — Thomas Huxley Bird 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
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. — Thomas Huxley Education Copy Share Image
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. — Thomas Huxley Expression Copy Share Image
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is… — 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
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed. — Thomas Huxley Being blessed Copy Share Image
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are… — Thomas Huxley Battle Copy Share Image
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. — Thomas Huxley Consideration 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 Folly Copy Share Image
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. — Thomas Huxley Emancipation Copy Share Image
[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth… — 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
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