All Thomas Huxley Quotes
- I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I… Any
- Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was… Appearance
- No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply… Able
- The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of… All
- To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of… Art
- As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in… Abuse
- The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum… Adopting
- We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly… Able
- Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? Empty
- Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people… Affection
- The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none but very hasty… Absurdity
- If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation. Believe
- In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the… Chop
- There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it… Action
- I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms,… Bear
- A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because… Adage
- What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy… Action
- A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. Able
- . . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is… Any
- My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was… Beings
- Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. Abyss
- If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed… Affirm
- Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… Accumulated
- It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. Duty
- Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. Afflatus