Thomas Huxley Quotes

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• That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art…
• What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be…
• For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has…
• There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an…
• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.…
• Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute…
• That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his…
• Veracity is the heart of morality.
• If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because…
• If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
• As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at…
• Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at…
• A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
• I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.
• The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
• ... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not…
• Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender…
• All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day…
• Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that…
• The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I…

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