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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. — 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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — 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
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
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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