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
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
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises… — 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
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
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their… — 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
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the… — 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
Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. — 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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