The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything... — Thomas Huxley Contradiction Copy Share Image
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. — Thomas Huxley Consequences Copy Share Image
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. — Thomas Huxley Experience Copy Share Image
Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt. — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams. — Thomas Huxley Accomplishment Copy Share Image
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. — Thomas Huxley Bible Copy Share Image
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley Absolute certainty Copy Share Image
My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Common sense Copy Share Image
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence… — Thomas Huxley Aspiration Copy Share Image
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my… — Thomas Huxley Ambitious Copy Share Image
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his… — Thomas Huxley Analogies Copy Share Image
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge,… — Thomas Huxley Comfort Copy Share Image
As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as… — Thomas Huxley Attraction Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Authority Copy Share Image
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be… — Thomas Huxley Being real Copy Share Image
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest… — Thomas Huxley Authority Copy Share Image
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Abyss Copy Share Image
I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced… — Thomas Huxley Affair Copy Share Image
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. — Thomas Huxley Messiah Copy Share Image
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. — Thomas Huxley Clock Copy Share Image
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. — Thomas Huxley Grandeur Copy Share Image
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
