I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. — Thomas Huxley Architecture Copy Share Image
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! — Thomas Huxley Beautiful Copy Share Image
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our… — Thomas Huxley Credit Copy Share Image
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great… — Thomas Huxley Classroom Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. — Thomas Huxley Happiness Copy Share Image
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the… — Thomas Huxley Art Copy Share Image
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — Thomas Huxley Acquaintance Copy Share Image
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and… — Thomas Huxley Crime Copy Share Image
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises… — Thomas Huxley Adages Copy Share Image
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking,… — Thomas Huxley Existence Copy Share Image
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has… — Thomas Huxley Animal Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Agnosticism Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy… — Thomas Huxley Ants Copy Share Image
Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Atheism Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows… — Thomas Huxley Agnosticism Copy Share Image
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley Beautiful Copy Share Image
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley Absurdity Copy Share Image
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part… — Thomas Huxley Care Copy Share Image
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. — Thomas Huxley Agnostic Copy Share Image
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley Fate Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a… — Thomas Huxley Assumption Copy Share Image
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with… — Thomas Huxley Conclusion Copy Share Image
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley Gun Copy Share Image
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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