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
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
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and… — 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
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. — 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
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! — 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