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
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for… — Thomas Huxley 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
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy… — Thomas Huxley 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
Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of… — Thomas Huxley 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
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley 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 Copy Share Image
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking,… — 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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you… — 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
