Best Thomas Huxley Thoughts
- The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put… All
- The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable… Absolutely
- The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new… Backwards
- I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal… All
- The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy… Accuracy
- I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a… Believe
- If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's… Any
- In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors,… Activity
- It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon… Artificial
- The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in… Add
- The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable… Acknowledge
- There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a… Dangerous
- We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try… All
- A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame… Acquaintance
- It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which… Any
- Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. Agnosticism
- It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have… Accepting
- It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. Better
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to… Ability
- I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything... Deny
- There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. Argued
- To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. Clear
- Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. Education
- People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. Intellectual
- The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Action
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