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Facts Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at…
- A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
- Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender…
- Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside…
- No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply…
- Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
- In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the…
- God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
- There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
- The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or…
- Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
- My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
- To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
- It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically…
- I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon…
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