Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
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 Quote
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Learn what is true, in order to do what is right, is the summing up of the whole duty of man, for all who are unable to satisfy their mental hunger with the east wind of authority.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
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.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
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 Quote
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
- Thomas Huxley Quote
