Thomas Huxley Quotes
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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? ~Thomas Huxley - Necessity
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a super inducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. ~Thomas Huxley - Education
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ~Thomas Huxley - Action
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. ~Thomas Huxley - Opinions
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley - Facts
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. ~Thomas Huxley - Sentiment
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. ~Thomas Huxley - Mathematics
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. ~Thomas Huxley - Colleges and Universities
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. ~Thomas Huxley - Bible
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ~Thomas Huxley - Knowledge
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ~Thomas Huxley - Truth
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. ~Thomas Huxley - Common Sense
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction. ~Thomas Huxley - Science and Scientists
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly. ~Thomas Huxley - Education
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. ~Thomas Huxley - Common Sense
Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ~Thomas Huxley - Time and Time Management
It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions. ~Thomas Huxley - Truth
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. ~Thomas Huxley - Integrity
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~Thomas Huxley - Danger
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. ~Thomas Huxley - Books and Reading
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ~Thomas Huxley - Consequences
The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ~Thomas Huxley - Science and Scientists
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ~Thomas Huxley - Science and Scientists
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying ~Thomas Huxley - Morality
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ~Thomas Huxley - Failure
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ~Thomas Huxley - Right and Rightness
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ~Thomas Huxley - Learning
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 - Methods
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ~Thomas Huxley - Perseverance
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. ~Thomas Huxley - Influence
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ~Thomas Huxley - Politicians and Politics
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ~Thomas Huxley - Science and Scientists
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. ~Thomas Huxley - Facts
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