Belief Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a super inducing of an artificial…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contemporary…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect upon them…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley