No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that 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
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow… — 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
It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts,… — 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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