Thomas Huxley Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Huxley
Thomas Huxley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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.
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.
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.
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.
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
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.
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
Freedom and order are not incompatible ... truth is strength ... free discussion is the very life of truth.
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
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.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
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.
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.