Best Thomas Huxley Sayings
- Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy… Annihilated
- God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. Face
- We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them. Behind
- The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the… Anyone
- Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth Ecclesiasticism
- I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the… All
- 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them. Agree
- Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will… All
- No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are,… Argument
- Learn what is true in order to do what is right. Funny
- Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. Armoury
- Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. Dignity
- It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity. Better
- There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to… Bottle
- There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. Beautiful
- The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work… Any
- The birth of science was the death of superstition. Accounts
- What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief;… Attaches
- That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. Calculation
- Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. Beats
- Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. Any
- I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense… Anthropology
- It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is… Assure
- Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does… All
- My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. Experience
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