"There is no greater mistake than the hasty……" — Thomas Huxley
"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued."
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195 Quotes by Thomas Huxley
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts…
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting…
— George W. Bush
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use…
— Eric Alterman
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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the…
— Alan Greenspan
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press…
— John F. Kennedy
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have…
— Francis Crick
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not…
— Robert K. Merton
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