“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
“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 Education 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
“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
“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist… — Thomas Henry Huxley Agnostic 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
“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
“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
“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
Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men — Thomas Henry Huxley Consequences 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
“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
“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
“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… — Thomas Henry Huxley Argument Copy Share Image
“His whole mind has been given to books, and I am hardly exaggerating if I say that they are more real to… — Thomas Henry Huxley Books Copy Share Image
“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like… — Thomas Henry Huxley Analogy 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
