Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. — 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
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — 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
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. — 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
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may… — 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
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
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
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have… — 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 only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. — 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
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. — 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
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so… — 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
