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How extremely stupid not to have thought of that
— Thomas Henry Huxley
'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
— Thomas Huxley
Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.
— Thomas Huxley
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
— Thomas Huxley
Veracity is the heart of morality.
— Thomas Huxley
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
— Thomas Huxley
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
— Thomas Huxley
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
— Thomas Huxley
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
— Thomas Huxley
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
— Thomas 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
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
— Thomas Huxley
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
— Thomas Huxley
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
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
— Thomas Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
— Thomas Huxley
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
— Thomas Huxley
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
— Thomas Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
— Thomas Huxley
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
— Thomas Huxley
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
— Thomas Huxley
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
— Thomas Huxley
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
— Thomas Huxley
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
— Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.Thomas H. Huxley — Thomas Henry Huxley
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
— Thomas Huxley
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
— Thomas Huxley
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
— Thomas Huxley
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
— Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
— Thomas Huxley
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
— Thomas Huxley
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
— Thomas Huxley
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
— Thomas Huxley
Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
— Thomas Huxley
To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Misery is a match that never goes out.
— Thomas Huxley
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.
— Thomas Huxley
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.
— Thomas Huxley
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.
— Thomas Huxley
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
— Thomas Huxley
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.
— Thomas Huxley
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
— Thomas Huxley
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
— Thomas Huxley
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
— Thomas Huxley
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
— Thomas Huxley
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
— Thomas 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
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
— Thomas Huxley
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
— Thomas Huxley
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
— Thomas Huxley
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
— Thomas Huxley
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
— Thomas Huxley
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
— Thomas Huxley
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
— Thomas Huxley
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Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.
— Thomas Huxley
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
— Thomas Huxley
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
— Thomas 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
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
— Thomas Huxley
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
— Thomas Huxley
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
— Thomas Huxley
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
— Thomas Huxley
Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead ... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
— Thomas Huxley
I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.
— Thomas Huxley
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
— Thomas Huxley
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
— Thomas Huxley
Freedom and order are not incompatible ... truth is strength ... free discussion is the very life of truth.
— Thomas Huxley
