Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. — Thomas Huxley Books Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley Age Copy Share Image
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. — Thomas Huxley Education Copy Share Image
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was… — Thomas Huxley Divine Copy Share Image
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless… — Thomas Huxley Doctrine Copy Share Image
Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless. — Thomas Huxley Art Copy Share Image
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something. — Thomas Huxley Crisis Copy Share Image
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. — Thomas Huxley Friendship Copy Share Image
Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance. — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. — Thomas Huxley Dignity Copy Share Image
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real… — Thomas Huxley Adages Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley After death Copy Share Image
Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we… — Thomas Huxley Belief Copy Share Image
“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or… — Thomas Huxley Aimless Copy Share Image
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Animal Copy Share Image
Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Huxley Agnosticism Copy Share Image
It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. — Thomas Huxley Failure Copy Share Image
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. — Thomas Huxley Bounds Copy Share Image
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it… — Thomas Huxley Mankind Copy Share Image
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. — Thomas Huxley Beautiful Copy Share Image
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