Quotes by Thomas Huxley

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it o — Thomas Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? — Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to — Thomas Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — Thomas Huxley
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our cr — Thomas Huxley
If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some so — 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 L — Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to — Thomas Huxley
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go a — Thomas Huxley
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspira — Thomas Huxley
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. — 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 ot — Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. — Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. — Thomas Huxley
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. — Thomas Huxley
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. — Thomas Huxley