Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed. — Thomas Huxley Bible Copy Share Image
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. — Thomas Huxley Life Copy Share Image
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley Injustices Copy Share Image
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium. — Thomas Huxley Equilibrium Copy Share Image
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or… — Thomas Huxley Delusion Copy Share Image
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify… — Thomas Huxley Belief Copy Share Image
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them… — Thomas Huxley Absurd Copy Share Image
The true purpose of education is to teach you to do the thing that needs to be done,when it needs to be… — Thomas Huxley Education Copy Share Image
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to… — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from… — Thomas Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that… — Thomas Huxley Absurdity Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a… — Thomas Huxley Apes Copy Share Image
If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of… — Thomas Huxley Biology Copy Share Image
Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us… — Thomas Huxley Absurdity Copy Share Image
Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted,… — Thomas Huxley Anatomy Copy Share Image
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley Art Copy Share Image
The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one… — Thomas Huxley Antagonism Copy Share Image
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — Thomas Huxley Abuse Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure,… — Thomas Huxley Animal Copy Share Image
The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. — Thomas Huxley Imagination Copy Share Image
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. — Thomas Huxley Economics Copy Share Image
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. — Thomas Huxley Education Copy Share Image
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford. — Thomas Huxley Charity Copy Share Image
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” — Thomas Huxley Medicine Copy Share Image
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
