“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like grapeshot of which one hits something and the rest fall wide. For the teleologist an organism exists because… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a super inducing of an artificial… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contemporary… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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. By about… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect upon them… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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 principle. That… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding conditions as… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that, though Jahveh's… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
