Best Thomas Huxley Quotations
- [Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against… Believe
- My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!' Biographies
- To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths… Abundant
- Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means… Best
- What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work. Day
- For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this… Accelerated
- The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour… Alike
- True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science… Bases
- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. Absolute
- The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. Account
- The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. Bible
- The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial… Admiration
- It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. Attainment
- Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science… Able
- In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. Any
- The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there… All
- Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone. Alone
- ...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. Claiming
- Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past. Cherish
- No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon… Always Beautiful
- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Education
- It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. Argument
- The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put… Addiction
- It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas… Almost Always
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Act
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