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Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
- Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
- Man's Place in Nature.
- There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
- Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
- Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
- Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
- My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
- Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
- Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
- 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…
- Misery is a match that never goes out.
- I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
- The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
- Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
- The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
- The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
- There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
- Science is simply common sense at its best.
- Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
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