“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
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Anarchy Copy Share Image
“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.” — Thomas Henry Huxley Belief 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Causation 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 Biology 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
“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
“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
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Charles-lyell 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
“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
“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
“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 Nature 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
“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
