In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. — 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
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a… — 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
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. — 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
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. — 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
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever… — 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
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or… — Thomas 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.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — 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
“Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows… — 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
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — 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
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.” — 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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