3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
