Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed… — 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
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — 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
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
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
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
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
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
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
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
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
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
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
