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Great Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an…
- As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at…
- 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…
- Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that…
- There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
- A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because…
- If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed…
- Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
- No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are,…
- It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
- I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense…
- It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
- Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science…
- Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
- The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of…
- The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put…
- I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal…
- The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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