In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed. — Thomas Huxley Being blessed Copy Share Image
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. — Thomas Huxley Expression Copy Share Image
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. — Thomas Huxley Education Copy Share Image
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would… — Thomas Huxley Bird Copy Share Image
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so… — Thomas Huxley Character Copy Share Image
No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have,… — Thomas Huxley Book Copy Share Image
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless… — Thomas Huxley Belief Copy Share Image
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
What men need is, as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for action; give them more and… — Thomas Huxley Action Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Adaptation Copy Share Image
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for… — Thomas Huxley Agnostic Copy Share Image
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window. — Thomas Huxley Altars Copy Share Image
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine… — Thomas Huxley Doctrine Copy Share Image
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. — Thomas Huxley Blunders Copy Share Image
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. — Thomas Huxley Aspiration Copy Share Image
...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. — Thomas Huxley Dirt Copy Share Image
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. — Thomas Huxley Consideration Copy Share Image
I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are… — Thomas Huxley Battle Copy Share Image
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. — Thomas Huxley Emancipation Copy Share Image
[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley Folly Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what… — Thomas Huxley Data Copy Share Image
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against… — Thomas Huxley Argument Copy Share Image
If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man… — Thomas Huxley Damage Copy Share Image
A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion… — Thomas Huxley Art Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone… — Thomas Huxley Delusion Copy Share Image
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call… — Thomas Huxley Chess Copy Share Image
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