“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 most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of… — 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
