If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window. — Thomas Huxley Altars Copy Share Image
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for… — Thomas Huxley Agnostic Copy Share Image
...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. — Thomas Huxley Dirt Copy Share Image
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. — Thomas Huxley Aspiration Copy Share Image
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. — Thomas Huxley Blunders Copy Share Image
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine… — Thomas Huxley Doctrine Copy Share Image
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. — Thomas Huxley Agnostic Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley 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
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
To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's… — Thomas Huxley Affair Copy Share Image
The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There… — Thomas Huxley Anthropology Copy Share Image
People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever… — Thomas Huxley Abyss Copy Share Image
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley Fate 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
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part… — Thomas Huxley Care Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley Absurdity Copy Share Image
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley Beautiful Copy Share Image
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley Gun Copy Share Image
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with… — Thomas Huxley Conclusion Copy Share Image
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a… — Thomas Huxley Assumption Copy Share Image
Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and… — 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 Astronomy Copy Share Image
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an… — Thomas Huxley Brain Copy Share Image
The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it… — Thomas Huxley Anarchy Copy Share Image
Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while… — Thomas Huxley Apes Copy Share Image
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