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
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 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
The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the… — Thomas Huxley 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
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
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of… — 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
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real… — Thomas Huxley 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 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 Copy Share Image
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good… — 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
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to… — Thomas Huxley 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 our instincts. — 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, one with… — Thomas Huxley 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 multitude of… — 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 Copy Share Image
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair"… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the… — 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 more than… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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