Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. — 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
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed. — 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
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 is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — 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
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket… — 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
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
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
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence… — 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
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
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted.… — 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
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — 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
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be… — 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
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
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — 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
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. — 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
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms… — 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
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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