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
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. — 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 a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window. — 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
I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — 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
Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than… — 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
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was… — 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
