3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
