“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.” — Thomas Henry Huxley Belief Copy Share Image
“If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.” — Thomas Henry Huxley Community Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether… — Thomas Henry Huxley Ability Copy Share Image
“If I may paraphrase Hobbes 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters… — Thomas Henry Huxley Aphorism Copy Share Image
Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men — Thomas Henry Huxley Consequences 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 Henry Huxley Common sense Copy Share Image
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that… — Thomas Henry Huxley Anatomy Copy Share Image
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a super inducing of… — Thomas Henry Huxley Body Copy Share Image
“How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is… — Thomas Henry Huxley Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to… — Thomas Henry Huxley Children Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Belief Copy Share Image
“Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Character Copy Share Image
“Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully… — Thomas Henry Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no… — Thomas Henry Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
“I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes… — Thomas Henry Huxley Argument Copy Share Image
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally… — Thomas Henry Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Fate Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Analogy Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Affection Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Architecture Copy Share Image
“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it… — Thomas Henry Huxley Ancients Copy Share Image
“In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine… — Thomas Henry Huxley Allegorical-interpretation Copy Share Image
“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley Ancient greeks Copy Share Image
“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding… — Thomas Henry Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
“It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Anthropology Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ]… — Thomas Henry Huxley Biological evolution Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Henry Huxley Agnostic Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Baron-d-holbach Copy Share Image
“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Adaptation Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Careless Copy Share Image
“Cats catch mice, small birds and the like, very well. Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed… — Thomas Henry Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
“I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated instinct to personify its intellectual conceptions.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Human mind Copy Share Image
“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call… — Thomas Henry Huxley Chess Copy Share Image
“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as… — Thomas Henry Huxley Advance Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley Alfred-russel-wallace Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Abyss Copy Share Image
“The propounders of what are called the "ethics of evolution," when the 'evolution of ethics' would usually better express the object of… — Thomas Henry Huxley Evolution Copy Share Image
“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Bible Copy Share Image
![“I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes with wonderful Power and closeness of reasoning, has by far the best of the argument, so far as the possible materiality of the soul goes; and that in this battle…” quote by Thomas Henry Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a4e/thomas-henry-huxley-14414_anthony-collins_i-do-not-think-anyone-can-read-the-lette_785635.jpg)
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