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How extremely stupid not to have thought of that
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
— Leland Stanford
Oh, no!" Hazel wailed. "Popcorn! Our fatal weakness!
— Rick Riordan
If I may paraphrase Hobbes's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Aquamarine is a wonderful color, and I won't be made to feel bad for wearing it,
— Maggie Stiefvater
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
There are some people who see a great deal and some who see very little in the same things.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
— Quentin Tarantino
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
— Thomas Henry Huxley