Accounts Quote by Thomas Huxley Download Open image “Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.” — Thomas Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounts Fulfilled Function Science Truth
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme… — William James Copy Share Image
“She who believes that science will inescapably solve humanity’s oldest problems and radically change the human lot in this world is the one who… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not. — William James Copy Share Image
Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he… — Moses Harvey Copy Share Image
“Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair"… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the… — 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 more than… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image